Hi, I had a crazy idea last day and was wondering what some of you think about it;

hmmm nice idea, now ...how to turn the shed into a microwave oven..

DONT DO IT!.....unless you want a big Kaboom!
Do not put anything conductive in to a microwave

what you mean, he cured that CF in 5 seconds!



If Brute Force Isn''''t working your not using enough...

the problem is he didn't cured it, he heated the part...

I think doing this will turn the epoxy yellow.

Regardless the microwave is exciting the hydated molecules which I dont think exist in the repeat unit of the normal epoxy. Your idea is good though. Scientists are currently sintering ceramics by microwave and conventional oven showing much quicker process rates.

Turns out you can do it:

Faster thermoset prepreg cycles through improved heating are also being sought by Voetsch Industrietechnik GmbH in Germany. It developed an industrial microwave oven, called VHM Hephaistos, with a hexagonal chamber that is said to apply more homogeneous heating than a round chamber. This year saw its first commercial application for curing carbon-fiber/epoxy prepregs. The result was said to be faster cycles than with conventional autoclaves and greater energy efficiency because all the energy goes into the part while the chamber stays cool. More uniform heating is also said to cause less degradation of carbon fibers. Chamber sizes are up to 1.8 x 2 meters. Metal tools reportedly can be used.

Thanks for that information, will dig a bit deeper on this subject when I find some time

Matthieu Libeert
Founder MAT2 Composites X Sports
website: www.mat2composites.com