New fuel tank mould....


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morepower
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Just decided to have a specific fuel tank mould as knife and forking one from the monocoque mould was never going to be perfect....


Just started laying today too.. so fingers crossed it will be laid up tomorrow...
cured for Wednesday....


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Very nice work,rich iam in the process off sorting a effecient oven out,but got impatience and post cured an old mold to test.and put in an old oven with no vaccum connecting into oven,just bagged the part came out pretty good a few pin holes not many.iam used to infusion,so pre preg is a lot nicer to work with,regarding curing,the material your using,could you advise on tempreture curing procedure any advise welcome.
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Cure cycles are hard to pin down.. It depends on the oven, mould, material and may need some testing. I would suggest getting a ramp and dwell controller ( a rework controller for electronics rework stations work but need a little thinking about as they usually only work in seconds per sector so you may be limited to 8 sectors at 9999 seconds each.) I am using one myself and have a 3 stage cycle with a lower temp first and a ramp speed of about 1 degree per minute then a dwell set before going up to the next step again at 1 degree per minute, dwell and then the final temp at 1 degree per minute to complete the final cure stage. 

I spent about 6 months testing materials and cure cycles to perfect mine. The dwell lets the mould catch up with the oven and I keep it below the lowest suggested cure temp for a while before the final stage goes into the actual cure temp and cure duration. 
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