Hey,

Thanks for popping in and having a look at the post.

So my first ever resin infusion project has almost got to the stage where I'm ready to do the lay up! And yes, for a first project I may have gone off in the deep end!! It's certainly taken longer to complete and had more headaches than what I was expecting!!lol

I've put together a couple of crude drawings of my molds, if somebody could have a look at the attached pictures and let me know how best to lay this up, in particular, if you could point out where best to put the spiral tube and infusion/vacuum points, and suggest what size spiral tube/infusion connectors to use for the base (pic 1), would be great.

And if you could point out where best to put my spiral tube and infusion/vacuum points on the main tub (pic 2), that would be great too. I just hope I haven't limited myself too much!?

Pic 1


Picture 1 is of the mold for the base. Material and consumables will be applied to the inside of it so that the outside of the base is against the mold. And it will probably be used upside down? I just hope my flanges are wide enough to put the tape for the bag and infusion valve!?

Pic 2


Picture 2 is of the mold for the main tub of my bath. Material and consumables will be applied to the outside of it so that the inside of the tub is against the mold and everything will be pulled down around it.

I did ask somebody else and they suggested I have my infusion point at the plug/drain hole with the spiral tube reaching out half a meter either side of it. But wouldn't this approach get in the way of the vacuum bag pulling down materials over the plug hole properly? My original idea was to have an infusion point on one corner and a vacuum point on the other corner?

Also, I have these  2 plastic infusion connectors to fit 1/2" spiral tube to be used on the mold for the tub, what I'm not so sure about is, the black one doesn't have any channels molded into it for the spiral tube, do I screw in 4 screws to act as spacers and create a half inch gap underneath that way for the spiral tube, or do I find a milling machine??


I hope all this makes sense.

Thanks for your time!

Rob

Is that a plug hole in the centre of the bottom face ?  If so,  including an airline fitting,  plugged with wax,  will make demoulding easier.