Re-laminating onto cured prepreg components

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Re-laminating onto cured prepreg components

Re-laminating onto cured prepreg components

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Sentinel Unmanned	S Sentinel Unmanned posted 5 Years Ago HOT Topic Details
S Group: Forum Members Posts: 2, Visits: 5	Is it possible to add further layers of prepreg to a cured part and re-bag & bake? Will the resins bond ok to the cured parts - I'm assuming the cured part will need keying up? Thanks in advance
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Re-laminating onto cured prepreg components

Sentinel Unmanned - 5 Years Ago

Yes. It is just like with wet-layup. You will need to prepare the surface for secondary bonding by sanding and/or peel ply removal - whatever it is you do. Most times people will use a resin film/glu...

explorecomposites - 5 Years Ago

Also be very wary of how clean your mould surface is. Any debris on the mould surface, no matter how tiny, will punch a dent into the component when you rebag and cure.

Hanaldo - 5 Years Ago

Cheers guys good know it will work, I've found the easycomposites prepreg very good with quite a rich resin content - will take also care with vac bagging I've had my share of frustrations with...

Sentinel Unmanned - 5 Years Ago

X-Preg isn't resin rich, it still only has a 42% resin content which is pretty standard for pre-pregs. If you're only adding a layer or two, I would still recommend using a layer of adhesive film to....

Hanaldo - 5 Years Ago

I do this all the time without film glue. Works great.

Fasta - 5 Years Ago

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