I think you could use expanding foam to fill the alluminum cage, than shape it. Doing this you could make the curves right and avoid pockets of air and resin having a nice surface to lay it on. Other than that, Great work!!
Good point @ryancorbett-d5x! For this particular epoxy, I use volumetric measurements. The manufacturer suggests volume bc the density of each part varies. But totally true that epoxies can be weighed very accurately with cheap scales! Great budget hack 👍🏽👍🏽
best option for carbon is a vacuum system thair rather cheep to get the components a pump from harber fraght you want the expensiveness one the cheep one is know to exsplode and a chamber to catch resin run off " easaly made from a pice of shedual 10 4 inch pvc pipe 12 inch pice shuld suit just fine matching end caps and two thread in barbs that fight 1/4 vacum hose one in from the work pice and the other out to the pump . i only say this becaous carbon is at is strongest with a one part carbon to one part resin composition and you get a sanifigently beter surface finish and way less issues working as long as your molds clean and buffed out to a glossie finish that is . nice job ither way most defitly a funtional part keep taking big bights one project at a time if you keep taking them you will surprise your self .
Thanks so much! I agree vacuuming and a real mold would be the best! I aim to do a higher quality vacuum part sometime in the winter. Lots of good instructional videos out there. You made great points! Stayed tuned my friend!
The close up of the welds had me for a minute, not gonna lie
Neither confirmed nor denied 😁
I think you could use expanding foam to fill the alluminum cage, than shape it. Doing this you could make the curves right and avoid pockets of air and resin having a nice surface to lay it on. Other than that, Great work!!
Great idea! I’ve not used expanding foam in a project yet, I’ll put it in my to-try list 👍🏽😁👍🏽
my favorite bit in these series is "heres a close up of my welds"
…not to brag, but y’know 😉
Really enjoyed this, keep up the good work 😄
Thank you! 😁
Not perfect but better yet not bad at all. Can see why this channels call extra medium. 😂
Thanks haha! Always improving… but enjoying every minute
Cheap kitchen scales would be more accurate for the resin mixing and not just a single use tool (y), nice video bro
Good point @ryancorbett-d5x! For this particular epoxy, I use volumetric measurements. The manufacturer suggests volume bc the density of each part varies.
But totally true that epoxies can be weighed very accurately with cheap scales! Great budget hack 👍🏽👍🏽
best option for carbon is a vacuum system thair rather cheep to get the components a pump from harber fraght you want the expensiveness one the cheep one is know to exsplode and a chamber to catch resin run off " easaly made from a pice of shedual 10 4 inch pvc pipe 12 inch pice shuld suit just fine matching end caps and two thread in barbs that fight 1/4 vacum hose one in from the work pice and the other out to the pump . i only say this becaous carbon is at is strongest with a one part carbon to one part resin composition and you get a sanifigently beter surface finish and way less issues working as long as your molds clean and buffed out to a glossie finish that is . nice job ither way most defitly a funtional part keep taking big bights one project at a time if you keep taking them you will surprise your self .
Thanks so much! I agree vacuuming and a real mold would be the best! I aim to do a higher quality vacuum part sometime in the winter.
Lots of good instructional videos out there. You made great points! Stayed tuned my friend!
wait till he figures out about cf skinning or... prepreg cf, prepreg is def the best imo
Deff love using prepreg. I’ve used that for case covers and it is great!