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wozza
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posted 11 Years Ago
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Found a picture of a nose section I did for a historic BRM using the above lay up. The nose is 2m x 1.9m and plenty strong enough and low weight (compared with the original).
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Hi Tom,
I agree with Warren, that vacuum bagging would help or even going for resin infusion? These are fairly straightforward processes but you need to spend a fair bit of money setting these processes up. If you did decide to go for one of these processes then you could even go down the epoxy and carbon route again though at a greater expense, but you would end up with very light but strong products! If you want to keep things simply go for some kind of core strength as suggested by Warren a 3D core or even a core mat.
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I think the bigger concern is the complexity of the parts you are wanting to mold. Those fenders look like they will be a pain to mold.
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Certainly multi piece moulds, great for getting the grey matter going working out the split lines
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my wing is from 9 pieces
guys i go normal way as i used budget molds and guy made me but without flanges so i can not do infusion . i think i go with 300gr 3 layers or 1 layer 300 and 6 6oogrnad i put hard foarm before last layer so parts get structural stable things.
as for all bodykit i calculated need around 70 kg resin polyster and 40 sq metres frp. plus gelcoat.
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i be using this foarm i think that gonna be pretty good and stable.
https://www.easycomposites.co.uk/easycell75g-infusion-grooved-closed-cell-pvc-foam
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TomDesign (10/03/2014)
i be using this foarm i think that gonna be pretty good and stable.
https://www.easycomposites.co.uk/easycell75g-infusion-grooved-closed-cell-pvc-foam
Closed Cell foam won't conform to compound curves/corners especially if you are not going to bag it. I would be going for 3D core or Soric. Also the core should really be balanced between the layers for it to be fully effective.
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i asked guys who do boats they told soric eat lot of resin and give very hudge weight. any link for 3d core? its same as soric?
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TomDesign (11/03/2014)
i asked guys who do boats they told soric eat lot of resin and give very hudge weight. any link for 3d core? its same as soric?
Soric does have a larger resin uptake than closed cell foam but certainly nowhere near as much as the equivalent layers of CSM would. 3d core has less than Soric mainly because the material is different and the cells are bigger so the feed channels between each core are smaller that's why I suggested it.
EC now do 3D core, have a look in the "core materials" section. 3D core is very similar in performance to closed cell foam but it will conform to curves better. That's what is was designed for.
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