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Two tiny questions: "V" weave and spray adhesive
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andygtt
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yes, I have so far almost never made the same part twice from the same mould, so each time is the first time and thus woking out were to put the inlet/outlets can be fun.
With the front clip shown above, I ran out of slow resin hardener and had to use fast, room temp was over 40deg so it was going off to fast to flow to some of the corners even though I had a lot of entry point I had to break the bag in 4 different places to introduce resin (1 area was size of a coin) so the bag had a huge amount of air introduced and thus pinholes on surface in those places
Heavy coats of resin using a 2 gun process (trick from Matt at EC) got rid of these pinholes but they would have been trapped under the gel coat if I had made the part that way and ruined it.
Jess8bit (25/07/2013)
ok I guess you mean in some place there is not enough bag pressure, so if you were gel coating the mold before the infusion, you'd have places were the infused resin would not fill properly the voids, between the gel coat layer and the clothe, is that it ?
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ok
tough job !
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more power is that a blue point socket set?
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i9300 (10/08/2013)
more power is that a blue point socket set?
Yes..... lol...
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andygtt (25/07/2013)
I use infusion with no gel coat on all my items then clear coat them.... My parts are very large and complex so I have the bags occasionally fail slightly which leaves pinholes, these parts would be scrap if they were gel coated but with raw resin I can do a heavy clear coat and recover them.
Also clear coat gives a glossier finish which is a must on car panels
I always stick one side of the V weave down first with great effort to get it straight and true, then I overlap the second layer to give the join strength... its not exactly easy, but it is acheivable
Looks great! When you pul the newly infused part out to the mold do you sand much before clearcoating? What grit? Thanks.
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