yamaha racer 686
Hard-core CEG'er
well ive come to a point in my surfboard building where i am going to start vacuum bagging the glass to the board to make them light and strong.
I will be picking up a vacuum bagging machine sometime in the new year and will be able to bag items that are pretty much flat up to 4'x12' and pretty curved items up to 4'x6'.
i was thinking of putting a huge amount of time and R&D into doing body parts. stuff like bumpers, trunk, front fenders, hood. if there was good enough intrest
just have to make a plug, then the female mold and can go from there.
with vacuum bagging you can get almost a 50:50 ratio of resin and glass meaning everything is saturated with little excess. making the parts much lighter then their metal counterparts and lighter or just as light as the plastic pieces.
this is not a project that would be done in a week and ready for people to buy with in a month. it could how ever be ready to do the first parts by june, since i can only work on it on weekends, i have surfboards to bag up when it gets warmer, and most importantly i have to pass all my classes for the up coming semester.
so if your interested or have any questions feel free to post.
i can't do carbon fiber because that is to expensive and hard to work with, without a proper shop to do it in.
I will be picking up a vacuum bagging machine sometime in the new year and will be able to bag items that are pretty much flat up to 4'x12' and pretty curved items up to 4'x6'.
i was thinking of putting a huge amount of time and R&D into doing body parts. stuff like bumpers, trunk, front fenders, hood. if there was good enough intrest
just have to make a plug, then the female mold and can go from there.
with vacuum bagging you can get almost a 50:50 ratio of resin and glass meaning everything is saturated with little excess. making the parts much lighter then their metal counterparts and lighter or just as light as the plastic pieces.
this is not a project that would be done in a week and ready for people to buy with in a month. it could how ever be ready to do the first parts by june, since i can only work on it on weekends, i have surfboards to bag up when it gets warmer, and most importantly i have to pass all my classes for the up coming semester.
so if your interested or have any questions feel free to post.
i can't do carbon fiber because that is to expensive and hard to work with, without a proper shop to do it in.