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Problems with VARI'd car body panels

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thilina75	thilina75 posted 7 Years Ago HOT Topic Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 5, Visits: 37	Hi ya, I am an Aerospace Engineer working in a project, developing a electric super car and I am manufacturing car body panels using VARI process. Recently I have came a cross some complecations with the panels that I have manufatured. (Please see the attcahed photos) As you can see, there is a mist like marks in the corners for this front hood reinforced panel. I used gel coat on the mold. Does anyone have any idea why I am getting these marks. and any advise will be appriceated. Kind regards. Thilina. Tags VARI
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FLD	FLD posted 7 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 468, Visits: 2.7K	Can't quite see properly as I'm on my phone but it looks like fibre bridging and resin filling the gap that's left.
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Warren (Staff)	Warren (Staff) posted 7 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Administrators Posts: 2.5K, Visits: 8K	It does look like bridging in those corners but a bit worse, maybe it has delaminated from the gelcoat or there is an actual air void under the gel. Hard to tell without some bigger pictures. Warren Penalver Easy Composites / Carbon Mods - Technical Support Assistant
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scottracing	scottracing posted 7 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 460, Visits: 5.2K	looks like bridging to me especially in those tight rads where the material has scrunched up as you can see its very tight together, the material needs to be pushed into all the corners under vacuum or see if you can get away with using strips of material in those areas and matching the twill direction on the other plies.
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