Had to share since it has a pic of the wheel mold. http://www.motorcyclemetal.com/gpage4.html
Does anyone have any guess why those holes are where they are? Is that where the bolts go threw to hold it together, or something else? I would think the clamping pressure wouldn’t be equal if it was the bolts, just because it doesn’t cover the left and right sides. Also how would they connect the two half’s together? Just with some extra carbon hanging from the spokes like a flange so when they bolt them together they can slide a bladder to press this flange onto the other layup combining the two into one? If that made any sense at all…
The middle bolts would be to hold the mould together, the outer ones could be jacking bolts for demoulding. As for clamping pressure, if they use an autoclave it will provide more clamping force than the bolts, they are just there to hold it aligned and together during layup and baging.