right,thanks to the kindness of baznos i have some flow media 
so i can try an infusion,just need to confirm some points…ive watched evans tutorial a million times but im unclear on some points.
im going to try simply some cloth on a plate of glass first as i find this useful,you can see the finished side of the part at work.
i have a proper 30" pump,peelply from vac bagging,vac bagging film and tape and now the flow media.
i plan on using a polyester gelcoat and west epoxy,nt ideal i know but its all i have at the mo.
what im unsure of is things like spiral wrap,sizes of hoses,can i infuse 1 layer of carbon and 2 layers of cloth?
gtfour, glad you got it okay.
I`ve used plastic hose in trials ranging from 6mm to 12mm bore and have settled somewhat on 10 mm on 12mm barbed fittings mainly because the 12mm fittings are relatively cheap, as for spiralwrap i managed to get that off ebay very cheaply.
You can of course infuse just 3 layers itll fly through but heat up that West epoxy first and also heat the glass, West epoxy will infuse very well youll be surprised. Do not be in a rush to check it out though let it cure overnight, once i was sure the curing process had started and bearing in mind i had a perfect vac seal i turned the vac pump off.
Have a go at making the resin trap, as you say youve got most of it already and if i made it for you the damn postage would be ridiculous bearing in mind that little bit of flow media cost ÂŁ4.52 to send. if you get stuck ill talk you through it. The other alternative is good old ebay ive seen paint pressure pots on there go for about ÂŁ50.00
Anyway let us know how you get on
Best of luck Baz
Spiral wrap: take hose and snip little sections out of it. I use tin smith sheet metal hand notchers.
The barb fittings can be plastic arrigation small hose for house plants “T”'s.
what does the spiral wrap do,i cant see any in evans video?
Here’s what it is originally made for:
Find an electronics installer, they’ll know where to get it.
yeah i can buy it no probs,just wondered why i actually need it.
Problems posted this image on another thread. If you look closely, the spiral wrap is positioned on opposite sides of the lamniate being infused. One side is the resin inlet and the other is the vacuum outlet. The spiral wrap is a cheap way to provide unobstructed flow along the edge of the laminate. If you wrap it in peel ply (and place it on the flow media) the vacuum bagging material won’t constrict the flow out of the gaps in the spiral tubing.
Ideally you should leave a short gap of peel ply between the laminate and the vacuum side to create a resin break/brake which slows the resin flow right before it reaches the vacuum line (the picture above doesn’t have one). This helps slow the resin from traveling into the vaccum tubing and allows the flow front to fully infuse the laminate before it reaches the vacuum line. In a complicated part, you might want multiple resin or vacuum lines that get opened and closed depending on how the part is infusing.
The art of infusion is predicitng how the resin will flow and placing the feed and vacuum lines. There’s software avalaible that will do these predictions for you, but it’s a few grand and out of the picture for most people.
so are you connecting the spiral to the tee piece of the infusion hose?
Exactly. The nature of the spiral tubing allows it to wrap around the tee.
ah,makes sense now,many thanks
i prefere nylon rope on the vacume side much easier to work with than spiral wrap