Split mould leaking


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Hi!
I would want some new ideas for a split mould. My last mould was leaking between the flanges. I am going to use resin infusion, so its critical that there is no air leaking. I included a photo of the part. It will be a three part mould. I will make splits above the door. Second photo has one idea I got, that the flanges would have 90 degree angle at the end, so i could put vacuum tape on it. blue and white line are different part of the mould. black line is plug. Top of the blue and white line is the vacuum tape.

Its impossible to vacuum bag the whole part, as its so huge. And I really wouldn't want to hand laminate this. 

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Ive just done a 4 part mould and being much smaller but complicated used the silicon to seal . To help when demoulding i use wax to give split points at the edge of the flange joins, this allows me to get a bar in between the mould parts and break the silicon seal.




like Hanaldo says you could use strips of sheet wax to give a gasket groove that could use vac tape or even a rubber seal similar to the rti light, might be rtm I'm unsure of the name but videos on you tube.
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