Matt (Staff) (17/06/2012)
Hi Mike,
You've done well there, especially considering it's a 650g cloth you're using which is thicker and therefore more difficult to get to sit down properly, especially in a right angled corner. You can see in the corner where the gel and resin are a lot thicker and the carbon itself has 'bridged' to some extent. I know this is only a test piece but if you did want to make this angle piece the using an inside mould and an outside mould (just two pieces of aluminium angle for example) and then clamping them together would ensure that this bridging wouldn't happen.
All the best, Matt
Hiya Matt, Ive found working with a heavier weight (in this case 650g) far easier for wet lay, although it does have its visual disadvantages if used with no surface ply like above.
As youve said you can clearly see where the thicker g/c & resin in however this is definetly down to the g/c pooling whilst setting as the mould I used to do this was indeed, two lengths of 2" aluminium angle. Which were gel coated (both internal & external parts), tacked off, plys laid down, wet out then clamped together using a G clamp every inch or so.
But alas, for a trail piece & some bracketry for my race car they'll do me a treat lol