Just for the love of it:
[ame=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS_Sqnn2rlc”]Car Body Glass Fibre - YouTube[/ame]
love this oneas well. high end…
[ame=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA7Fhm1ltJg”]American Sports Car - “How we do things” - YouTube[/ame]
Nice, glad to see they’re able to control the fiber to resin, 60/40, ratio so well in that second one.
I like that radius air check…had a few voids myself over the years.
What’s a radius air check? Also, in the first video, I’m assuming they’re using PE on that chopped strand fiberglass, but I don’t see any respirators. Is that just bad practice or is that workshop so well ventilated that they can get away with it?
I don’t think that such ventilation system exists- standing above such a big mold laminating and not smelling the fumes…
Around 1:50 in the second video.
Tapping the piece to ensure there are no voids (mainly from bridging) in the curved areas…comes from bad lay-up.
I will get them occasionally if I have a 90 degree angle in a part and don’t vacuum bag the angle right or layup properly…gelcoat ends up chipping away showing the void.
So they’re basing the test just off of a learned noise that the part would make if it had a void? Cool, thanks for the info!
tnt - so I’m guessing something like that wouldn’t be legal in the US cause we have controls (OSHA, a regulatory agency) on how much styrene can be in the air in a normal working environment. I know that I get nauseous working in an area heavily saturated in styrene (from my experience with s249), so I was just surprised to see that these guys were doing it so naturally.