Spawn Aerodynamics - Bullittes CF build thread.

[njmike]

Originally Posted by CCCLXXZ

I am assuming you have never made a carbon fiber hood before because you have not mentioned making two molds for the hood. One mold provides the exterior contours and the latter the interior contours and structural rigidity. Once both molds are complete the two parts need to be bonded with carbon specific structural adhesive for wet layup, if dry carbon was used you could reintroduce heat and the two pieces would bond together in an autoclave.

Completely untrue. Once a thermoset polymer is cured, it can not be reheated to bond to other matricies.

Read up on thermoset v. thermoplastic polymers. All structural resins are thermosets.

There are specialized adhesives used to bond cured composite components.