I am making a part with gentle compound curves. Think snowboard or skateboard. Currently I place the top skin of cf in a mold and vacuum bag it. It cures over night and then I do the bottom skin. Another overnight and finally I place the two skins and the aramid honeycomb in the mold and bag it a third night.
This is a hobby business, so I don’t have multiple molds or vacuum presses. Still, this is frustratingly inefficient. There must be a better way.
I would love to just wet layup the top skin, add the honeycomb, and add a wet bottom skin and bag it only once. I don’t do that because my limited knowledge of CF is that each skin needs to have the excess epoxy squeezed out of it. I’m afraid that if I put the whole wet sandwich in at once I won’t be squeezing all the excess epoxy out.
Honestly, I don’t even know why I’m worried about excess epoxy. My part should be light, but a few extra grams on a skateboard sized part is not going to change anything.
Can anyone suggest a more efficient process for creating these sandwiched parts than my current three day process?
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