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Bruce	Bruce posted 12 Years Ago HOT Topic Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 18, Visits: 432	Hi All , My name is Bruce and i repair supercars/sportscars/racecars for a living mainly Aston Martin , Ferrari ,Lamborghini and Mclaren A lot of the repairs are Bonded or welded or riveted Aluminium (or all 3 at the same time ) but a fair amount is composite parts bonded onto spaceframes and some carbon fibre monocoques on certain vehicles (Ferraris and Mclaren and now Aston martin and lamborghini) My main interest is the repair of composite parts ,most of my mould making is done to make repair moulds to remake shapes in broken parts . Most of my repairs are wet layup ,but we are now in the process of buying a hotbonder to make repairs to parts using out of autoclave pre-preg materials . I am really enjoying looking at the moulds and parts made by some of the members here some real dedication going on giving me more than a few ideas Here below is a repair from this week this is cracked through to the back 20120711_070708 by brucemilburn, on Flickr the make up of the part is 3 layers of carbon and then a layer of glass fibre at the back the back was repaired first then the 3 layers removed from around the split and the entire top layer to the natural join line round the No plate aperture to the centre line where the twill stipe matches up 20120711_130301 by brucemilburn, on Flickr Vac time 20120713_125317 by brucemilburn, on Flickr 2 layers of fibre in to slightly beyond the area where the fibre was removed 20120713_141949 by brucemilburn, on Flickr then sanded back until flush with the surrounding fibre and also all the bagging materials are prepped and taped into place above the repair area then one piece of carbon covering the repair area and the whole of the section to the centre matched to the twill stipe 20120713_163125 by brucemilburn, on Flickr then the finished repair clearcoated and polished 20120717_161745 by brucemilburn, on Flick 20120717_161903 by brucemilburn, on Flickr 20120717_161729 by brucemilburn, on Flickr Tags carbon fibre repairs aston martin Edited 12 Years Ago by Bruce
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Joe	Joe posted 12 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 310, Visits: 1.5K	Hi, Bruce. Welcome to the forum ! A $1000 electronic device will always protect a 10 cents fuse
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SebRS	SebRS posted 12 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 29, Visits: 558	Amazing repair tips! such a beautifull work (for a fast car!) Seb.
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NikCFC	NikCFC posted 12 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 61, Visits: 871	Wow!!!! How did you manage to line-up the wave so perfectly!!!! Amazing Job!!!! Welcome to the Forum!!!!Show us few more pics of the Babies you're working on.....
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Bruce	Bruce posted 12 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 18, Visits: 432	Thank you for the welcome the diffuser is from an Aston Martin V12 vantage , the V12 has lots of visual carbon parts on both the interior and the exterior as for lining up the twill pattern its not too hard on this part as there is the natural join round the edge and as i said above the picture you have got to remove a complete layer of carbon to the join line for the repair to blend in perfectly its done by taping (with3 or 4 layers of flash tape) round the edge of the join area and if you look i have drawn lines on the tape exactly where the twill needs to match up ,and then the shape of the repair piece is drawn onto a piece of folded polythene with lines drawn on the to show the direction of the stripe then the carbon is put inside the polythene with the resin matched up to the lines then squeegee the resin into the carbon and cut out the shape about 1cm bigger than the template you can then peel off the layer of carbon with the polythene stuck to the top its then possible to drop the carbon onto the part and move it around until you match up the lines drawn on the polythene then peel the polythene off the carbon and you should be left with it matching up but overlapping the flash tape then bag it and cure it when its cured you can sand through the carbon overlapped onto the flash tape without damaging the original and with a bit of care the carbon blends in nicely to the original join i will try and find more pictures of carbon things i have repaired Edited 12 Years Ago by Bruce
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