I wont have my biaxle glass till friday so I only have some CSM. It is 1.5oz and I need to only use 2 layers. Would the binders in the csm slow or even stop my infusion? The panel is 42x42 inches. Any feedback would be appreciated!
it will work, but slowly. the binder and the random fiber orientation slows the resin greatly
I agree, I test infused a layer of 2oz csm without flow medium and the polyester resin traveled only 9 inches across. The laminate was 8" wide x 36" length. One layer of hybrid carbon/kevlar 6oz over the 2oz csm. The infusion was started just on the 8" wide side of the laminate and vacuum was drawn from the opposite end of the rectangle laminate. We were pulling a full 29hg of vacuum with no bag leaks.
With flow medium the resin would have had a much better chance of fully infusing.
It will slowly work but have in mind that with mat you should use only polyester resin
I definatly will be using flow media! I will do a test and see what happens! This seems to be the last of my worries of the past week! Check my other post I am making right now!
Ditch the chopped stand and use continuous strand mat. The resin will flow much better.
well the only reason I am doing is because my other glass is not here yet. I have used continous strand mat for awhile before and hated it. That is why I switch to the biaxle glass I normally use.
Just wait for the right materials to arrive. Substituting lower quality materials is not acceptable IMO. Shouldn’t run out of anything if production is planned properly, but unfortunately there are times when the supplier is at fault.
This is aside from the fact that CSM is just terrible for infusion as it’s basically an antiflow media.
all it is, is a pair of door panel inserts for a street car. No fuction to them at all, that is why I really didn’t care