Hi Warren
thanks for your reply, I agree, my point is that this has always occurred but at a much lower rate / level, this is significantly more.
However, and this is the reply to Hanaldo as well, these test parts are very small 10*12cm approx, and the stack was 4*220 twill with 2mm soric in the middle,
and yesterday 450+220 2mm soric 220+450.
To be considered a thick laminate with the size in mind?
and if so, is this to be expected?
And to be honest, when I say "all the other infusions I have done" I don´t mean parts of this size, only larger ones.
Warren (Staff) (12/01/2017)
How loose the bag comes in infusion varies depending on viscosity of resin, thickness of laminate, size of part etc. Height of the resin pot can make some difference.
Certainly with a thicker part, you will find the resin flows into the bag a lot quicker than it will initially be soaked into the laminate, so you can get an excess of resin in the bag at the resin end. If you clamped the resin feed, as the resin soaks in, the bag would tighten up again and the vacuum level in the bag would even out.
Ideally the bag should tighten up again once the infusion has completed and the resin feed is clamped off, unless there is a lot of excess resin still there. You could suck some of this out into the catch pot but be careful not to go too far.Hanaldo (12/01/2017)
How big are the panels and what is the layup?
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