Carbon fibre race car body work repair


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Neil1970
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Hi there first posting on here but have previously worked with preg preg and wet lay for over 10 years but have been out of the game for a bit,has any one got any good info or no of any good links on carbon fibre repair could be doing some race car repair work soon many thanks.
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What kind of info are you after? Will you be replacing sections of bodypanels or repalcing and bonding.
Ive picked up myself a hot bonder recently for repair work with prepregs. But if youve worked with the materials before you should be fine.
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Making repairs to damaged body work so I'm after various options really 
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its going to be dependent on if you are going prepreg or wetlay repair, you can get away with a decent scarfed wet lay repair in most instances. Or otherwise fill the damage then take a splash mould of the repaired section and lay up a new tool repair splash, lay into it and cut and bond the repair section into the panel.
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Do you have the mounds for them?
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Will be a combination of event support test and race and factory based I believe.
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If you are doing on the job repairs you want quick bonding stuff like wurth replast that cures in a couple of minutes. Prepreg work you will need a hot bonder ideally and snap cure resins. 
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Gave you a reply on composites central.

even that just touches the surface of the job
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