How to make Carbon Fibre SPLIT mould. Car wing mirror cover. Prepreg [OUT OF AUTOCLAVE]

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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