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By Bean Bandit - 11/24/2014 8:28:31 PM

Hi

I'm Bean, living in Israel but I move every few years all over the planet.

Currently I'm restoring my Toyota AE86, I already created a few custom parts and got more planed - some of them being made out of composites.

Later down the line I'd like to try and build up my own little business creating custom composite parts as this is something I can set-up pretty much everywhere I end up (which I can't do with a Tuning-Workshop).

Still new to this whole thing and learning everyday but was hoping to get some recommendations for a good book I can keep as a reference.

Hopefully I'll have some progress to show next year.

Looking forward to learn and share experiences

Bean
By Dravis - 11/29/2014 3:19:36 PM

I've made my own short "checklists"  for the different processes in composites, with things like : What needs to be in the "stack" when doing wet lay with vacuum bagging.

What the different mixing ratios are for different resin/hardener systems e.t.c.

Timing sheets for things like "cure to a tack" for the tooling Gelcoats .e.t.c.   Fortunately my workshop is very well "temperature controlled" being rather small, and extremely well insulated (Did it myself with 100 and 200 mm rockwool all around ... so its cheap to heat in winter, and easy to keep cool in summer. It very rarely drops below 18 deg. C and only occasionally gets above 22 in summer.) 

This makes the "time-sheets" posted on my wall very usefull ..