Inside the nose of the race car will be a carbon-fiber and honeycomb sandwich impact attenuator. So now’s the time to learn how to do vacuum bagging and sandwich layup. Also epoxy. So many new skills…
- Components for vacuum-bagging system, including cheap sink drain.
- Assembled vacuum-bagging system
- Starting the layup
- Drawing a vacuum
- Demolding
- Prying the panel off the glass mold
- Aluminum panel of equal weight bends easily
- Sandwich panel supports adult man’s full weight