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Old 01-12-2008 | 03:58 PM
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I am using two pieces of glass here about 12 x 30".


Cut your nomex to about the size of the glass.

lay out 2 pieces of wax paper a little larger than the glass.

Cut your fiberglass cloth and carbon cloth to about the size of your nomex - I am doing fiberglass on one side and carbon on the other - you could do fiberglass on both sides for a less expensive layup and for our use it's plenty strong - the carbon gives it a little extra bling to the inside of your fuse.

for this size layup I mixed up another 50 gram batch of west systems - with no reduction here.

pour about half of that batch of resin out on the fiberglass cloth, with the foam roller, wet the cloth and spread the resin. the fiberglass will take some rolling to get it wetted. It's got a tight weave - just keep working it.

now pour the rest of the resin on the carbon cloth, your roller is good and soaked now with resin - you will find it's really easy to wet out the carbon.. The deal with the carbon is it's really easy to stretch and distort the weave of the cloth. once you've wetted it out. pull the weave straight and make sure it's laying flat on the wax paper on top of the glass.

take your nomex core and position it ontop of the carbon cloth.

peel your fiberglass cloth off the wax paper and place it ontop of the nomex.

place the wet side of the wax paper that was with the fiberglass back on top of the fiberglass layer.

take a second to pull everything straight.

place the second peice of glass ontop of the stack, contiuning to straighten out the cloths, core paper and glass.

flip the stack over and look at the carbon layer making sure it's straight with now wrinkles.

place about 75 lbs on top of the stack and set it aside.

your done for a good 24 hour cure cycle. once cure peel the paper and you will have a composite panel ready for use.
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