resin infusion problem


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santana-dk
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Hello 

 As the title says I have had some problems infusing flat carbon/aramid sheets.  I am using glass as a mould so i can get as smooth sheet as possible.
 I use EC mould clean > followed by Easy Lease x4 times. the sheet is 32cm X 26 cm and 160ml of resin was used.
 After 1 hour or so i Lay:
- 1 Layer of 300gr Plain weave Carbon 
- 3 Layers Of Kevlar 280 gr 
- 1 Layer of the same Carbon. 
 -Peel Ply
-P3 Release film Perforated
-  Infusion Mesh
- Resin infusion spiral
- Bagging film

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 Since i didn't have more resin infusion resin I used EL2 Epoxy Laminating Resin that i let it be heated by the sun for 1 hour. I could clearly see the the viscosity of the resin had changed. i  For the Mix Ration I then used with 2/3 of  AT30 Epoxy Hardener FAST in conjunction of the Slow hardener since i didn't know hoe fast the infusion process would take ( The  infusion process took under 25 secs BTW).
 The bag didn't had any leaks since i let it be for 1 hour.

Room temperature was close to 30 degrees and it never dropped to under 25 during Gelation time.
i demolded the sheet after 17 hours.
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 So where in the process  did I go wrong ? 
did I pull a too hard vacuum;  should have used a Lossless vacuum regulator ?
or should i just leave it a full day or more before demoulding ?`
Any tip will be appreciated.

Santana
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Why did you add the perforated film?! 

When doing vacuum infusion you need this set-up:

from down to toplayer
1.CF/Kevlar/Fiberglass (whatever you want)
2.Peelply
3.Infusionmesh
4.Tackytape/Spiral tube/Vacuumbag.

when doing Vacuumbagging you'll use the perforated film

from down to toplayer
1.CF/Kevlar/Fiberglass (whatever you want)
2.Peelply (not obligatory)
3.Perforated film
4.Breeder
5.Tackytape/Spiral tube/Vacuumbag.

What you did is blocking the resin to go through your laminate. The resin will run over the perforated film and now and then go through the tiny holes.
Resin will always follow the easiest way through the laminate. in your case on top of the perforated film Smile

Matthieu Libeert
Founder MAT2 Composites X Sports
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www.mat2composites.com




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Hi, I always use perforated film to my infusions simply because it's easier to remove the mesh and fittings especially in complicated molds. Judging from the photos and your sayings I would advice you to check the following. 1. Air Leak after opening the resin inlet  2. Vaccum fitting should be outside of the part - preferably on the flanges 3. your infusion time is really fast - use another mesh and not cover all the  part with mesh - leave a braking area without a mesh to force resin slow down and saturate the fibers
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Hello,

this is my first post here, so my name is Dominik and I just read this problem.

I think this is one of your first infusions.
There are some things that went wrong
First, you can never have a too strong vacuum for infusion. Than higher the vacuum than better. For a good infusion you should always have a vacumm with absolute pressure below 20mbar, better below 10 or 5 mbar.
The high vacumm makes sure that you have as less air as possible in your compacted dry fabrics. That also means that you have as less air as possible in your part.
I a classic infusion without any special avacuation hoses you need a brake zone to slow down the resin flow. You placed your vacuum ports direct at the flow media. So the resin flows fast over the part through the flow media, but depending on your vac level you overran dry fabrics and the vacuum could not saturate them completely.
Let the flow media end about 2 cm before your fabrics end and build a brake zone from peel ply wich will slow down the resin flow. Place your evacuation port (1 is enough at this part) at the end of the brake zone.
Than make sure you have a infusion resin (one that works), because other resins may have some additives that start degassig in infusion or closed curing process.
Degass the resin so that any entrapped air can be elimated before infusing.
It is also very important to have a 100% airtight setup.

If you have all these parameters you will get a much better result.

Dominik

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