carbon door card bits!

[andygtt]

carrying on my carbon obsession I decided to make the plastic bits on the door cards in carbon... so I took moulds of them and thought Id start a little 'How to thread"

dont worry though, Im going to leave the U tube videos to the experts

prepared the bit to make, covering it in a chemical release agent.

IF these parts are not stupidly difficult to make (the sharp edges and complex angles are worrying me lol) then I will make a small run of these... if however they are a total nightmare then they will be a one off



Heat glued the part into some sheet plastic so that I have large overlap for ease of bagging



After another coat of chemical release agent I painted the gel coat



once the Gel coat goes tacky a sealer layer of vinylester resin goes down with tissue glass



Once the sealer layer dried the bulk layer goes down on mass, this will be 4 very resin heavy layers up to 10mm, it has a special compound that means zero shrinkage, i call this the custard layer



finally next day the parts can be removed from the mould and are now ready for the part to be made...




Hopefully at the weekend I will pull the first part from these new moulds and will update this thread acordingly

[andygtt]

I don't thInk making the parts going to be hard.... It's getting the carbon weeve to look nice that worries me

[andygtt]

tonyvan said:

I tried to make these in carbon,they looked ok,but went perfect so I gave up after a long slog.ended up getting them carbon dipped,and look great.!!

I want perfect as well, which is why i suspect i will only end up making one set lol

[andygtt]

I made a mistake on the first set I tried to make (so they were scrap) and have been out of te country for last 3 weeks so not had a chance to try again.