Vacuum Bagging - Problem with surface finish


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Ashutosh
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Hi I am doing Vacuum Bagging and in the final part there are gaps/voids where the warp and wept intersect. Here is an image of it. Can anyone help please?
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Chris Scott
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Yea I would say that is almost definitely due to not maintaining a full vacuum.

Also if you are wet laying it up, even if you have the overall fibre/resin ratio correct, that doesn't mean you won't have localized resin starved/rich areas.

I would wait until the early morning to wet layup/vacuum bag so that you can keep it under vacuum as long as possible. Since you don't have the luxury of doing a leak test once the part is bagged like you do with vacuum infusion (prior to infusing), I would also take your time with the bagging tape to make sure that it is perfectly sealed and leak-free.

Vacuum infusion will minimize these errors, but if you're limited to just vacuum bagging you can still improve on this.
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