RESIN INFUSION DE-MOULDING PROBLEMS


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Good morning to everyone!  

Im Mr. Andrea from Italy, I'man aerospace engineer student at LaSapienza University in Rome. I'm not newwith the composite, but I decided to upgrade all my systems for infusionprocess. I bought almost every things from EasyComposite in the last 2weeks. 

I'm making a special parts ofa motorbike with colored carbon fiber. I had several problems:

1) The first time I waste 2mold because I wasn't able to de-mould it. The surface was seriously damaged.The pictures speaks more than many words. I think it was the wax, because withPVA I don't had problems. 

-     I will post thename/picture of the wax later…

-     I put the mould immediatelyin the oven at 60°C, without waiting the gel time at 20°C. I cure it for 3,5hbefore de-mould.

-     We used 3M Super77 as spray adhesive

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2) I decided touse PVA because I always de-mould any complex parts without issue. But in thiscase is always really hard to de-mould the parts; probably because we use sprayadhesive??

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3) I have a lotof difficult to remove the mesh and the peel ply from the surface. Do you anyadvice of how to place it?

http://http://imageshack.com/a/img842/9254/cdx3.jpg

 

-     The vacuum pressure is 0,8bar. I use 20lt vacuum can (I had it).

-     The mould wasmade by vinylester resin

-     The mould’sgelcoat is polyester

-     We use Forex asflange’s material

-     The mouldsurface is not perfect, I posted some pictures.

-     I followed theMatt Youtube’s video on resin infusion.

I hope that myproblems was easy to solve, because I need to bring this part to a motorbike’sfair.

Thank you toeveryone!! 


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I've done the same "problematic" mould using epoxy gelcoat and easylease as release agent. I also had more care on polishing the surface. The EasyLease is the better release agent I ever tried.  I will let you know the results of the infusion at the beginning of the next week!!
hope this post would help many peoples!
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