infusion through a 2 piece alum mould


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I have cnc a 2 piece alum mould and would like to do infusion through it...  the part is  900mm long x 120mm x11 mm and will have 3 different kinds of carbon in it.   Is it possible to pull through it 
I have cnc a place for a gasket around the rim of the mould ,  put placement for inlet port and outlet port. 



the way I have been doing it is a wet prepreg hand lay into moulds  putting the two pieces together and pressing it in my heated press.  Finish isn't there and needs too much hand work in the end. 

so my goal is to do a dry lay up in the alum moulds   put them together , put them in the press under 5ton of pressure , pull resin ,  bump the press up to 40 ton and hit it with heat to cure the resin.  
I am using heat cured resin  so the parts will not deform in the sun on the beach.   Resin cures  in I hr at 180 degrees. 

any advice would be great...

thank in advance
terrie
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thanks for the reply

I was thinking about making the inlet and out let ports  sizing them up to 12mm
straight carbon all the way through no core.   need it as stiff as possible ( being only 11mm thick  )

my press is has plates top and bottom and will be pressing in between them  so warpage should be little to none.. (  proto types were pressed this way with MDF moulds)

 good idea about just doing a layup in a bag and seeing how it wets out and how much resin I will need.

one friend suggested I do infusion on the 2 outer layers and once it is set ( but still green)  do a wet prepreg on the inside just so I get the pretty layer on the out side. 

been trying to get my head around this for months now.    the only thing that scares me is not having any fusion cloth in it so has to pull through carbon only.
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