Would I be better with Prepreg ?


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Damien
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OK...here is a part that I am making. Here is the mould. I did it with the EC gelcoat and paste for high temperature, anticipating that I could then use it for hand layup and prepreg. I am making my first part by hand layup (because I need to check all dimensions are good at the end). But man it was a mess with all the shapes...do you guys think that I would really be better with prepreg or would it be just as hard ?
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Hi Hanaldo,

Thank you for your feedback ! I can have access to a fairly good oven, I may give a shot to the prepreg to see how it goes.

But watching the EC video on out-of-autoclave prepreg, they make their part cutting multiple small pieces with some overlap between them. That makes the positioning of the prepreg easier, that I can understand, but then the thickness of the final part is not homogenous as it will be thicker everytime two parts overlap. I need a quite homogenous thickness of 2 mm. I have never worked with prepreg. Is it
flexible enough that a part like mine could be done using single layers and not multiple sub-parts ?


Thanks!
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