Strechlon 200 bagging film


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Afternoon all
Can anyone point me in the direction or know where I may get hold of a small amount of strechlon bagging material ?
I have a job coming up that I don't do very often but do use the film , and I have run out 🙄

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Steve Broad - 6/9/2020 12:57:37 PM
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Hanaldo - 5/28/2020 12:55:00 AM
Oh, apologies, you're correct. Looks like they don't carry it anymore. Didnt notice when it got dropped!

Yes, unfortunately we haven't carried it for a couple of years now; we dropped it at about the same time as the silicone coated release ply when we moved over the the VB160 and VB200 that we stock now.

I don't know where you'd get a small amount though nowadays unfortunately.

Why did you drop it? With a 500% stretchability it seems to be great stuff. There is even a version that appears to be able to withstand oven temperatures. What are the downsides? 

It's not as useful as it promises. If you know how to make a vacuum bag with regular bagging film, then those films are tougher and much easier to work with. Strechlon sticks to epoxy, it punctures very very easily, it doesn't stick well to bagging tapes, and it has various issues with infusion etc. About the only thing I have had much use for it with is vacuum bonding.


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Hanaldo - 6/9/2020 1:26:28 PM
Steve Broad - 6/9/2020 12:57:37 PM
Rich (Staff) - 5/29/2020 9:06:35 AM
Hanaldo - 5/28/2020 12:55:00 AM
Oh, apologies, you're correct. Looks like they don't carry it anymore. Didnt notice when it got dropped!

Yes, unfortunately we haven't carried it for a couple of years now; we dropped it at about the same time as the silicone coated release ply when we moved over the the VB160 and VB200 that we stock now.

I don't know where you'd get a small amount though nowadays unfortunately.

Why did you drop it? With a 500% stretchability it seems to be great stuff. There is even a version that appears to be able to withstand oven temperatures. What are the downsides? 

It's not as useful as it promises. If you know how to make a vacuum bag with regular bagging film, then those films are tougher and much easier to work with. Strechlon sticks to epoxy, it punctures very very easily, it doesn't stick well to bagging tapes, and it has various issues with infusion etc. About the only thing I have had much use for it with is vacuum bonding.


So, no real issues, then :-)

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Steve Broad - 6/9/2020 4:19:40 PM
Hanaldo - 6/9/2020 1:26:28 PM
Steve Broad - 6/9/2020 12:57:37 PM
Rich (Staff) - 5/29/2020 9:06:35 AM
Hanaldo - 5/28/2020 12:55:00 AM
Oh, apologies, you're correct. Looks like they don't carry it anymore. Didnt notice when it got dropped!

Yes, unfortunately we haven't carried it for a couple of years now; we dropped it at about the same time as the silicone coated release ply when we moved over the the VB160 and VB200 that we stock now.

I don't know where you'd get a small amount though nowadays unfortunately.

Why did you drop it? With a 500% stretchability it seems to be great stuff. There is even a version that appears to be able to withstand oven temperatures. What are the downsides? 

It's not as useful as it promises. If you know how to make a vacuum bag with regular bagging film, then those films are tougher and much easier to work with. Strechlon sticks to epoxy, it punctures very very easily, it doesn't stick well to bagging tapes, and it has various issues with infusion etc. About the only thing I have had much use for it with is vacuum bonding.


So, no real issues, then :-)

No not at all, it is a commercial product used by professionals all over the world for a reason. If it was inherently flawed with defects then it would not be. I just found it not very reliable, and not as useful as a basically infinitely stretchy bag seems on paper, and so never bought any more of it. I'd say a lot of EC's customers came to the same conclusion, and it got dropped from the line-up.

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