How to make carbon plate with both faces finished


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Infusion seems to be the way to go, but you only get one finished face with peel ply texture on the other. What's the best way to get 2 finished faces? I tried a small 150mm square by just clamping 2 peices of aluminum tooling plate together and it worked perfect with really good fiber to resin ratio, but I need some larger 500x500 plates (2mm thick). I could use 2 plates of glass backed up by something else like mdf maybe, but I imagine just clamping around the outsides is not going to squeeze the middle well enough unless I get tricky with the clamping. Maybe some thick peices that span across with clamps on outside to hopefully put enough pressure in the middle. 
Any other good way to do this other than clamping? If clamping is the best option, what's the best choice of clamping plate material and method for doing it? 
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oekmont - 8/26/2018 10:09:24 PM
If the best strength to weight ratio is needed, sandwich would be the very best solution. Like 60-70% less weight compared to a solid 2mm material.

I'm assuming I would have to go thicker than 2mm though to get equal or more strength than solid 2mm. The current design requires 2mm thickness and I'm assuming a 2mm thick sandwich would be weaker than solid 2mm right?
definitely something to consider though for future designs. At one point I had thought about using thicker material with lighter core for better efficiency but these plate peices are fastened to aluminum parts with m3 and m4 screws. A lighter core will make it more likely to crush when fasteners are tightened right?

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