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Old 19th August 2009, 01:50 PM
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Few years I made one of my high side seats in carbon but had to leave out the moulded slots, first one was tickety boo but the 3 after that were scrap as cloudy in places then pin holes etc also it etched my mould so gave it up as took me 3 hours to clean the mould up.
Tried clear gel...result= cloudy big pants
Tried thinning clear gel...result= even bigger pants.
Best result was first one where I never used gel at all just wetted mould with clear resin and slapped on the carbon....result= few wee pin holes but laquer cured that.

Oh and carbon doesn't like uv rays so needs sunglasses
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Old 19th August 2009, 03:26 PM
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Oh and carbon doesn't like uv rays so needs sunglasses
Yeah, I know about that one.

SP do a UV resistant epoxy topcoat, so some of that will be in order.

If anything, it will be a little adventure

Sean
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Old 19th August 2009, 04:50 PM
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Oh and carbon doesn't like uv rays so needs sunglasses
I've heard it dulls scissors and knives really fast too.
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