How to make Carbon Fibre SPLIT mould. Car wing mirror cover. Prepreg [OUT OF AUTOCLAVE]
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Published 2022-05-01
In this video I show how i make a split mould capable of withstanding 120deg temperatures to cure out of autoclave prepreg.
-- Time Stamps --
0:00 Intro
0:19 Flanges
1:23 Split section
2:24 Epoxy gel coat
3:17 Coupling coat
3:41 Tooling resin
6:03 2nd Half repeats 1st steps
7:38 Demould
8:42 Post cure
9:01 Finished mould + Carbon part
Materials used all from www.easycomposites.co.uk
-Eg160 epoxy gel coat
-Uni mould Coupling coat + 100g Chop strand
-Uni mould tooling resin + 450g Chop strand
-xpreg xc110
Please note - Technically epoxy gel and uni mould doing go together... But it works for me.
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All Comments (21)
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Please Note - Epoxy gel coat and Vinylester/Polyester Uni mould don't technically work together, however if the gel coat is left to cure over night before layup this has worked fine for me.
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This is the best split mold tutorial on YouTube. ๐ great work.
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What a great video! Thank you for showing us your techniques.
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Thanks for this video, this answers a lot of questions I was wondering about๐ Looking forward to more such masterpieces ๐ฅ
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Very insightful video! Thanks for posting and best towards your future projects.
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Great vid. Interested to see the layup/bagging process as well as the finishing. Cheers.
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Great job! A masterpiece๐๐๐. Thank you. God bless you.
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Very nice ! Every time i make a mold itโs such a relief when you hear the creaking then that โpopโ ๐
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Dimples in first half is a a good idea for accurate matching of parts on split line!
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๐ Excellent work..... I will be attempting the process of making my Ebike Controller compartment and Battery box . The vision in my head is clearer now after your guidance. Thanks Bruver ๐ค
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Grate job man, i will try it ๐ช
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Exelent.. Great job, ๐
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Beautiful work friend
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Awesome video man thanks
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๐๐ป๐๐ป๐๐ปWell done!
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awesome๐ฅ
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Nice ๐
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๐๐good work
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Hello, great video! Can this way be also used for vacuum infusion?
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Very good, how are you managing to navigate around carbon print through from the first few parts. Weโre using high temp VE gel coat with tooling VE resin to wet the fabric thanks !
