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Poor man's vacuum bagging

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Created by WillyWind > 9 months ago, 6 Mar 2023
WillyWind
579 posts
6 Mar 2023 11:45AM
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I am modding the head of an old Hawaiian proline boom. I needed to add some carbon layers and decided to give a try to the clothes vacuum bags. It worked really well. The bag held vacuum no problem. One drawback is that I have no idea how much vacuum I created. But it's much better than no vaccum (I don't think would have been able to do this shape without it).





Sandman1221
2776 posts
6 Mar 2023 12:11PM
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Good thinking!, and a picture of the finished boom head?

WillyWind
579 posts
6 Mar 2023 12:54PM
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That's going to take a while :)

decrepit
WA, 12767 posts
6 Mar 2023 2:06PM
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just be careful you don't get resin in the pump

Jethrow
NSW, 1272 posts
7 Mar 2023 8:53AM
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and then his wife saw what he did and he was never heard from again!

GulfWinds
35 posts
17 Mar 2023 9:33AM
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I have done the same thing to build a couple of deep Tuttle foil boxes. Used a shop vac which pulled enough vacuum, and they turned out very well.



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