Hi everyone,

Nice workshop.

Are you planning on having some form of heating? Most resins are fairly temperature sensitive so it may be something you need to consider to ensure your parts have a good curing temperature throughout the cure time.

Also for vacuum bagging, ensure the bagging area is fully clear of anything that could puncture the bag, be it wood splinters, glass fibre splinters etc.  The cleaner you can keep the bagging area and film, then the less chance of those annoying small bag leaks you can never find!

Warren Penalver
Easy Composites / Carbon Mods - Technical Support Assistant

Oh yeah ambient temperature is a big factor hence the insulation overkill. Even at -1°c outside my workshop never drops below 10°c. I have a little fan heater which heats up the workshop really quickly to about 20-25°c really quickly t-shirt temp even when freezing outside and once up to heat I switch it off and it holds the temp of at least two or three hours!! For long cure resin infusions I have a 100watt electric blanket on the bench which I place my mould onto cover with a blanket that holds about 25°c constant for those long cures which is low cost on the electric and such a low temp not at all a fire risk

Nice, these are the type of threads I enjoy, lots more images of the workshop progress please!

The workshop is looking good the one thing I say is build a heated glass table somewhere I know I keep mentioning it, but that's because it's cheap and works so well for me with a single £20 Argos heater, it heats the table up and the builtin fan heater sensor turns off the heating element but keep circulating the warm air when it's up to temperate so it hardly uses any power, the fan heater just switches back on once the internal temperature drops so it regulates it's self very nicely.

That looks great Dave; I set my workshop up a couple of years ago and unfortunately its already been filled with all manner of other useless tat so I need to get on and either clear it or build another so I can finally get back to it; seeing yours coming together certainly makes it more apepaling to get back on with it!!

Davro I've seen your heated glass worktop on many occasions(not peeping through your window, but on you YouTube speed shop vids) it is a really good idea very impressive ingenuity I think I might have to pinch that idea at some point.How do the temperatures fair on taller or bigger projects is there much difference???Are the temps high enough for OOA prepreg?

Never played with OOA prepreg, only ever done resin infusion not really sure about the temperatures required with OOA prepreg
But I think you would also need a way to ramp the temperature ?

I just keep it low temp and simple, as the workshop is reaching critical mass ...

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Yeah I got my mate who does house clearance is sourcing me a glass table top of some sort and will be building one like yours for my resin infusions. Also I have an old steel gas cooker which I'm going to sort out going to build a box out of fire board to put inside and rock wool insulation as I'm going to dable with some prepreg. I bought 1800wtt element for £25 and I got a pid temp controller with a thermocouple and a SSR for £11.97!! doesn't do ramp or soak but as I understand the ramp times go up in intervals of between 10-20 degrees every couple of hours so will just control temp manually just to see what its like and if its any good I'll pay 40 or 50 quid for a ramp and soak pid controller.