Attaching decorative c/f sheet


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ezsailor
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Pleased to report that with helpful advice from your tech team and some forum members I have now successfully made up 6 flat c/f panels in 195 gsm varying from rectangular 400 x 400 mm to triangular 2200 x 450mm by resin infusion. All have eventually come out without voids (yipee), there was some scrap. They only worked well once I heated the layup table to 22c, and heated the resin as it flowed with a hot air gun. I did use a lot more resin than in your tables, but the surplus came off in the peel ply. My panels are 0.35mm thick.

Now can you you help me with sticking these on my grp boat?  I have coarse sanded all the grp, 80 grit. I cannot control the temperature which is ambient in a big steel shed, currently 3c and 65% humididty. I therefore cannot use epoxy the glue them down, because any minor  uneven heating / cooling causes ripples, I have tried. The surface is compound curve, just, but I have formed the panels dry, by heating them till flexible and taping them down to cool. (It works!) I favour using pu 18 adhesive as it is flexible and waterproof, but how on earth do I get an even thicknes of such a thick sticky adhesive over such a big area??? and how do I keep the panels even on top of the adhesive?? Any advice and or clues would be greatly appreciated.
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Bruce
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I don't know what your shapes around  the area   you are working on so ignore me if this is totally useless for your situation Smile
I glued a thin piece of carbon (flat cured pre-preg ) that a friend of mine had bought and was trying to stick to a sort of truncated 
half cone shaped display stand thing, he had tried a few times and it just kept coming off 
I masked the front face of the carbon and the area's on the part that needed to be kept clean  with flash tape then brushed a P.U adhesive onto the 
part and the carbon then put it round the part and taped it to get it to stay sort of in place (this was what he had been doing to try to get it to hold ) 
then made up a vacuum bag lined with breather fabric  and put the part inside and vacced. it held  the carbon tight and ended up with some excess 
P.U round the edges which we pulled off with the flash tape 
is it possible to make a surface bag round the area you are sticking the panels to 
stick the panels on put breather cloth on then  vac film and vacuum the part on 
the vac will keep them nice and tight to the boat ,
as i said before this might be totally useless for your situation 
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Thanks Bruce, yes i can mask around the part and put bagging film over, i can see that would also result in very even pressure all over. Good idea.. I am still concerned about applying the PU 18 though, anyone know how thick it is to apply? can i for example spread it out with an adhesive comb after applying lines of it from the gun? anyone used it? what do tech support think?
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