Does this sound like a good process?


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I already posted about my carbon fiber helicopter boom, for that I decided I'll bite the bullet and do alloy molds. 
I also need a carbon fiber helicopter canopy. Similar shape to a football but a bit bigger and open at the back, I'll attach a pic of one. It will have pretty thin wall thickness, generally they are about a half mm, maybe .6 or .7. So only a couple layers of weave. 
I will be making my own design on fusion 360 and milling the plug on my cnc. The process that makes the most sense to me is milling each plug half (mold will be split down the middle lengthwise, right and left half) out of mdf or foam, spraying it with layers of duratec primer, sand and polish, then attach each plug half to a flat sheet of melamine or some other rigid plastic to create base for mold flanges and proceed to make fiberglass mold halves from that. I would prefer to skip the plug stage and go straight to milling the molds, but it just doesn't seem to work out as well as making fiberglass molds from a plug.  From the female molds I will vacuum bag a carbon fiber wet lay up. 
does this sound like a good plan or is there an easier/better way considering I have a cnc? Another variation would be attaching the 2 plug halves together to make a complete plug before applying duratec,  then split into 2 molds using the method shown in the air box video, but i feel that it will be less work to just attach the 2 halves to flat sheets for making the molds, just need to make sure both sheets are perfectly flat planes. 

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Steve Broad - 8/8/2018 1:35:04 PM
quinn - 8/8/2018 1:17:39 PM
Hanaldo - 8/8/2018 6:07:49 AM
I wouldn't trust a jar to hold full vacuum. I've collapsed steel cylinders before, and only managed about half vacuum before they let go. They need to be pretty robust things to handle the vacuum well.

In all honesty, it probably wouldn't be that dangerous - but I'd still take cover. There's a chance that the thing would implode, the energy of which would send shards flying. It's much more likely that it develops a crack first that destroys the vacuum and nothing else happens, but flying glass isn't something I'd be taking chances with.

Well they are definitely designed to handle vacuum since that's how you preserve food in them but I don't know for certain if they are 100% safe at full vacuum. I could probably make it safe by wrapping in fiber tape or something, but ill find a safer way. A chunk of capped off pvc would definitely be safe. If it can handle over 100 psi inside, I'm sure it can handle 14.7 outside.

Maybe over the top, but interesting none the less :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bWxgrtOKz8

Yeah pretty much, mine will just be an 8in long or so section with 2 caps, maybe 1 1/2 diameter. Drill 2 holes in one of the caps to silicone in some plastic barb fittings and just glue the caps on. Probably under 5 bucks for the whole thing, throw it away when I'm done. 

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