New to Carbon Mods is this basic starter kit designed to provide all the necessary equipment (excluding vacuum pump) and supplies to enable anybody to undertake sophisticated resin infusion composites manufacture without the need for any additional equipment or training.
The kit includes a resin catch pot with vacuum gauge, valves, connectors, hoses and even the correct selection of infusion consumables and resin necessary to undertake your first few parts. The only peice of additional equipment required is a composites vacuum pump. If you don't already have a vacuum pump then Carbon Mods also do a Resin Infusion Complete Starter Kit which includes the pump.
What is Resin Infusion?
Resin infusion is a sophisticated technique for manufacturing high performance, void free composites even on large or complicated moulds. The process is ideally suited to the manufacture of carbon fibre composites and is widely used by professional manufacturers for the production of carbon fibre body panels such as bonnets and by marine manufacturers for the production of boat hulls. It is however, equally suited to the manufacture of smaller detailed items that would be all but impossible to make successfully using an open layup.
Reinforcement is laid into the mould 'dry', i.e. without any resin, and then enclosed in a specially configured stack of bagging materials (such as peel plys, infusion mesh and bagging film) before being subjected to vacuum pressure using a composites vacuum pump. Once all the air has been removed from the bag and the reinforcement has been fully compressed under atmospheric pressure, liquid epoxy resin (mixed with hardener) is introduced to the reinforcement through a pipe which then infuses through the reinforcement under the vacuum. Once the resin has fully infused through the reinforcement, the supply of resin is cut off (using a pipe clamp) and the resin is left to cure, still under vacuum.
Full List of Equipment and Materials
- 1x Resin catch pot & liners
- 1x Vacuum gauge
- 1x ¼ Turn valve
- 1x Infusion tube clamp
- 1x Silicone resin feed connector
- 1x Silicone vacuum connector
- 6m Vacuum hose
- 6m Vacuum bagging film(1.52m wide)
- 5m Peel-ply
- 5m Resin infusion mesh
- 5m Resin feed spiral
- 2x 15m roll Bag sealing tape
- 1.5sqm Breather
- 1KG Epoxy Infusion Resin (with hardener)
Unrivalled Instructions and Practical Advice
In common with all Carbon Mods starter kits, our Resin Infusion Basic Starter Kit is the result of years of practical experience working with these materials, equipment and processes every day. Many of the connectors and pieces of equipment included in the kit are actually manufactured by us in response to practical problems we have faced and we are pleased to be able to offer this complete system to help companies and individuals master this highly effective manufacturing technique.
The kit is supplied complete with comprehensive instructions detailed diagrams explaining both the theory and the practical side of resin infusion. A video to accompany this kit will be available soon.
To accompany the instructions there are a series of diagrams that can be printed out to help with your set-up. Download the Resin Infusion Setup Diagram here.