The door looks great, I'd like to do my own, but I have not figured out the window frame yet.
Kevlar has been traditionally been about 2/3's the cost of carbon-fiber. But carbon fiber has come way down in price. Kevlar is very hard to work with and if you have to pay more for it. forget it. BTW: the need for heat in the curing process is related to the resin not the reinforcement.
Based on your picture's I am assuming your placing dry cloth, pouring resin and the spreading it in the mold.
Try this technique, it will help if you think of it as making your own pre-peg. Place the dry cloth between 2 sheets of plastic, pour the resin on the cloth (under the top layer of plastic), spreed the excess resin to the edges of the cloth, cut the cloth/plastic to size and then place the piece in the mold (and don't forget to remove both pieces of plastic). It's a bit time consuming, but your parts will come out lighter and stronger.
Don't know if these pictures help or not. These where taken right before I mixed the resin. I made 2 parts, one of kevlar and one of carbon fiber and cured them under the same vacuum bag.
-Keep up the great work, looking forward to seeing more
Kevlar has been traditionally been about 2/3's the cost of carbon-fiber. But carbon fiber has come way down in price. Kevlar is very hard to work with and if you have to pay more for it. forget it. BTW: the need for heat in the curing process is related to the resin not the reinforcement.
Based on your picture's I am assuming your placing dry cloth, pouring resin and the spreading it in the mold.
Try this technique, it will help if you think of it as making your own pre-peg. Place the dry cloth between 2 sheets of plastic, pour the resin on the cloth (under the top layer of plastic), spreed the excess resin to the edges of the cloth, cut the cloth/plastic to size and then place the piece in the mold (and don't forget to remove both pieces of plastic). It's a bit time consuming, but your parts will come out lighter and stronger.
Don't know if these pictures help or not. These where taken right before I mixed the resin. I made 2 parts, one of kevlar and one of carbon fiber and cured them under the same vacuum bag.
-Keep up the great work, looking forward to seeing more
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