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I'm havin trouble with my first infusion where iv got a tiny air leak sumwhere and I can't find it.
Iv even ripped the bag off it and started again making sure to be carefull sticking it dwn to the gum but still the same 
my question is 
Is there a certain way to not get leaks or should I just get a ultra sonic detector
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justas (07/02/2014)
I am new in infusion and would be appreciated for any advice.
My though is to make boom infused from inside as there are many additional layers in some places inside. So I made a two-sided mold. 

http://www.talkcomposites.com/Uploads/Images/4cd37515-bfaf-4005-b280-457d.png

I put necessary laminate on a table, just glued slightly with spry together. Then peel-ply with a reserve. Then lay net only on the bottom. Another strip on top of tube later. All this I lay to one part of mold. From one end I connected resin inflow hose just 10cm inside on the bottom where is a net. Then I put hard smaller tube covered by vacuum film agglutinated with sealing tape along the mold. Then I lay another net strip on the top and folded all ends of laminate correctly around the hard tube, before connected vacuum hose on the other end of mold at the top between peel-ply and net. After I extracted the hard tube from the inside and slightly folded inside all laminate to cover with a top side of mold. Before covering I lay seal around a perimeter and covered with a top mold. Sealed up both ends and tautened all sides of mold together every 50cm. The I vacuumed it and everything looks great for 15 minutes. 

So, there are no leaking. I didn't put a spiral as a tube is D=75mm and I think the net is enough for resin flow.After 20 minutes infusion I observed resin flow in vacuuming end of mold, but it flows with air bubbles. I tried this 4 times and the result is similar. After demolding there are small bubbles of air on the top of the product. 

Where is this air from and whats wrong?



http://www.talkcomposites.com/Uploads/Images/759e7a67-9b13-4e87-9c15-6fdf.JPG


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Looks well thought out. If you had a perfectly sealed bag and the resin got to the catch pot that is good. You say you haven't done an infusion before so I think you are worried about seeing air in the vacuum line where it comes out of you molding. That is normal . When you infuse you can watch your resin front look like its boiling and that is fairly normal. But notice as the front  travels the area behind it becomes clear. so when the front gets to the vacuum output tube I always let the remainder of my input resin flow until it is almost all used up to kind of aid in flushing out the bubbles at the catchpot. Also when I make a mold I try to have more distance for the resin to flow through the stack at the catchpot end so any bubbles will be cut off of the finished part. Hope this makes sense.
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