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Originally Posted by RBurke83
When I get home tonight I’ll look for my digital calipers but tbh I haven’t seen them in a while so not sure I’ll have an exact answer but the feel test I’d say more than 1mm and less than 3mm.
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I did three layers of donated, refrigerated, aerospace-grade, biased-orientation, pre-preg CF-Epoxy in Reno, and it turned out less than a millimeter in thickness.
We constructed a plastic-faced, USG tooling plaster mold, waxed it three times, then used a detail gun paint sprayer to apply the final, polyvinyl alcohol, water-based release agent.
The vacuum-bagging was overnight in an autoclave, and the part 'popped' without any drama.
The material is the most 'amazing' I've ever worked with, and I look forwards to doing wet layups at home for the BOLT when I can.
Your thread is inspiring. Thanks!