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Silicone type inserts !

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By Porkster0 - 9/7/2016 11:47:36 AM

Good morning

When I used to work in a composite shop we used to use silicone rubber 2 part mix for making insert/formers that we would make to make shapes by adding the soft mix (plasticine texture) to the awkward parts of a mould let it set to a flexible rubber state and use it as infill pads/inserts ON TOP OF the prepreg carbon during the Autoclave curing process to help prevent bridging in awkward spaces and with it being a type of silicone it didn't stick to the resin and it was easy to remove afterwards and was reusable.

Do you have a product like this that does not need curing with temperature that I could use  as a reusable insert with wet layup carbon and your EL2 epoxy laminating resin and no vacuum .

Regards

Ian
By f1rob - 9/13/2016 3:34:38 PM

The white original silicone came from synflex

then other people became suppliers

vac innovations orange version is as good if not better and a LOT cheaper !