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Tominator	Tominator posted 12 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 9, Visits: 320	Ah, can you shine some light on what kind of prepreg it was? resin content? Single sided? You used breather on the mould side of the part? Is that so the air can be sucked out by the bag? Edited 12 Years Ago by Tominator
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carboncactus	carboncactus posted 12 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 243, Visits: 1K	Tominator (01/08/2013) Carbon Cactus, Thats a great looking tea tray! Is the prepreg these manufactures had you try Out of Autoclave prepreg? I'm looking for some OOA prepreg in small quantities (hopefully cheaper than the easy-preg stuff). -Tom Tom, No, it wasn't OOA specific, but it can be used OOA.
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Tominator	Tominator posted 12 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 9, Visits: 320	Carbon Cactus, Thats a great looking tea tray! Is the prepreg these manufactures had you try Out of Autoclave prepreg? I'm looking for some OOA prepreg in small quantities (hopefully cheaper than the easy-preg stuff). -Tom Tags OOA prepreg
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FiftyPence	FiftyPence posted 12 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 26, Visits: 264	CC, the tea tray is brilliant! As you may have gathered I am currently attempting to wrap various car parts but I'd love to find something relatively simple to do in CF which I can show my father in law to prove how awesome CF parts can be. I just have EC pro finish 2x2 twill and some of their regular 2x2 twill cloth. I may try creating a mould of a dinner plate and reproduce it in Cf using resin infusion because I would really like the thrill of watching the resin flow across during the infusion process. I'm not sure what else would be a good starter piece, I tried a coaster back in 2010 but it was small and now I'd like to try something larger.
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TomDesign	TomDesign posted 12 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 454, Visits: 2.5K	yes but to much hassles i thought only resin be enough without gelcoat on top
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morepower	morepower posted 12 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 242, Visits: 1.2K	All of the Polyester resins will work and you will surely need to put some gelcoat on the surface due to its thixotropic nature to stop it from running.. Putting a layer of gelcoat over a surface like a wrap is done too... I dont think using a gelcoat for an overlay is a problem.. Moulded or none moulded the gel coat is just a thicker version of a resin and if it is a good gel coat it will have good clarity too... Fine to sand back the surface for a good finish and then to polish... I did some mirror covers that I wrapped with carbon and I used a couple of layers of normal laminating resin then several coats of normal gelcoat this gave a really good part and was very glossy too.....
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TomDesign	TomDesign posted 12 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 454, Visits: 2.5K	IM SORRY BUT 10 TIME I SAY SAME THINK I NOT LAY GELCOAT ON LAMINATED CARBON CLOTH ON OEM PARTS BUT YOU KEEO GIVING GEALCOATS. PLEASE ANY TYPE GREAT POLYSTER RESIN?
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TomDesign	TomDesign posted 12 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 454, Visits: 2.5K	im sorry cactus last time i do this not wanted to take your time.
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carboncactus	carboncactus posted 12 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 243, Visits: 1K	Crystic, not crystal. Crystic resins are almost all polyesters, some are vinyl esters. You might end up getting a casting resin if you look for "crystal", which may or may not work. You probably want to get Crystic 95PA or CCP's Norsodyne surfboard resin. Both very clear resins. BTW thanks for stealing my thread. Edited 12 Years Ago by carboncactus
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TomDesign	TomDesign posted 12 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 454, Visits: 2.5K	man i found very close to me that poland shop. so i need crystal resin that is polyster? as people say lot of guys use crystal resin then only polysh. so crystal resin it is polyster yes?
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