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Thank you Warren for activating my account.  I (we) am a small shop that deals in resurfacing flywheels, rotors, etc.  However, that is not enough.  Composite work is so very interesting and satisfying that one cannot ignore the creative opportunities.  I had one prior experience with Easy Composites that was excellent in 2019 and so I returned for another project.  This time it was an attempt to replace a frunk lid that was trashed.  Frunk?  Yes, Porsche 914/6 front deck lid.  The part that was damaged was a sincerely cheaply made fiberglass part with balsa reinforcement strips.  One mishandling led to the almost total destruction of the part.  Delaminated corners, cracked through areas, and the paint was just flaking off.  The part wouldn't even hold the shape of the car anymore.  The solution was also less than ideal, but we went after it anyway.  The panel was sanded roughly in all the damaged areas and then re-bonded with liberal wet layed csm and resin.  Then the part was literally screwed down to the car in the correct position in order to achieve the correct profile.  This meant the remaining flanges would be very small and very difficult for infusion.  We used the uni-mould system to create the mould---sort of...more on that later.  Then a successful infusion, as far as a race car part is concerned, was done.  While not an ideal stack, we used a 203gsm 2x2 twill top layer, 667 gsm 12k 2x2 second layer, 4mm soric, 667gam 12k 2x2 final layer.  Catch pot was leaking a bit later in the infusion and still not sure why it didn't show up in the drop test, which went perfectly fine. And for those asking why such a thick soric? We wanted 2mm but it was unavailable on short notice locally. The goal was a light but strong part that would take a bit rougher handling than the cheap crap we were duplicating.  Now to fill a few small and very shallow voids, sand and clear.
I did make a mistake however, and Easy Composites was able to sort it through a good discussion on exactly why I had screwed up, how badly I had screwed up, and how badly thing could possibly turn out, lol.  It was a very helpful chat and very appreciated.  I had enough csm about the shop and dodn't need the uni-mould kit in whole, only the resins.  I screwed up and ordered epoxy tooling gelcoat instead of the uni-mould tooling gelcoat.  That is why the mould pics look like a green color.  Thanks to the staff at Easy Composites, I was able to succesfully make one part from this mould and will be trying a second part in the near future from the same mould.  Pics attached if I can figure it out.
Thank you for the support of the team at Easy Composites!!!

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