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Ben Lipman
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Sunday, September 01, 2013 - 11:35 am, by:  Ben Lipman (Ben12a)

I have just successfully infused the first carbon front guard.

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The mould doesn't quite hold a vacuum, but importantly it pulls one (15 inches!) I am thinking the flanges are still not sealing properly, or the mould is porous some how. I did find a pinhole in the glass mould and plugged it with some tacky tape, but there is at least one other leak that I can't find.

Still managed to infuse the part. It is always nervous when you open the tap and let the resin in...was very worried I wouldn't get all the mould. Found a patch where there was no infusion mesh- will not let that happen again. The entire rest of the mould infused in the time that this 2cm strip took to wet out. Was worried it wouldn't happen at all.

Moved it into the sun to speed up the cure. Waiting, waiting, waiting.

Will need to order more consumables: infusion mesh, bagging film, peel ply and tacky tape. You use these up very fast, and I don't have a cheap local supplier.

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