Anyone tried a reusable silicone vacuum bag?

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Anyone tried a reusable silicone vacuum bag?

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jamesw	jamesw posted 12 Years Ago HOT Topic Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 61, Visits: 558	Anyone tried this before? Have a look for: EZ~Spray® Silicone 20 For those of us making multiple parts, it looks really good... Would be good to hear of anyone using it, and if EC would recommend it? James
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Drew Diller	Drew Diller posted 12 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 35, Visits: 199	No I don't go on velocipede - first I'd heard of it actually. I can give you a quick background on myself - when still in essentially unconfident teenager mode I flunked out of college twice, once software engineering then mechanical engineering. I fell into software engineering for a living and ten years later I want to do mechanical engineering, lol. Whoooooops. I think if you mistook me for an employee I must be on the right track? I hope so. My most pressing hangup right now is making a tough, leak free, reusable bladder. I have the mold creation end of things more or less covered. I get prepreg at what appears to be a very fair price straight from Zoltek. The consolidation and compression bit is what I don't have down yet. (Is it just me or do the QUOTE tags on this forum not work intuitively?)
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compositepro	compositepro posted 12 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 22, Visits: 65	Drew Diller (14/07/2013) No I don't go on velocipede - first I'd heard of it actually. I can give you a quick background on myself - when still in essentially unconfident teenager mode I flunked out of college twice, once software engineering then mechanical engineering. I fell into software engineering for a living and ten years later I want to do mechanical engineering, lol. Whoooooops. I think if you mistook me for an employee I must be on the right track? I hope so. My most pressing hangup right now is making a tough, leak free, reusable bladder. I have the mold creation end of things more or less covered. I get prepreg at what appears to be a very fair price straight from Zoltek. The consolidation and compression bit is what I don't have down yet. (Is it just me or do the QUOTE tags on this forum not work intuitively?) Hi Drew I was wondering as Argonaut actually use a company called ICE for all their carbon knowledge,was wondering if they were moving away from them as there are a lot more folks asking questions online now regards Bladder molding and seeming not to have got as far as you have. I actually worked in the USA many years ago in the bicycle industry, back when composites were in their infancy ,but moved away from it when i got involved with a guy who was working for a big military aeroplane company in Burbank Turns out he got me a job back in good old England as he was quite high up in the F1 teams as far as composites engineering went and we kind of went from there, spending time in F1 Defence you kind of develop things which companies outside those industries then patent claiming its NEW but again the birth of my daughter has brought a career change hence we set up a bicycle consultancy and manufacturing company in the UK If you get stuck for anything drop me aline chief
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