I made the body, seat, floor and side pods for the Formula SAE car last year at my university. Its very time and labor intensive. I mad the plugs at school then we went to kenny's components in morrisville NC he told us what to do to make the female molds and let us use his shop and materials we still had to do all the work. After the females were made we polished and repaired any imperfections in the mold. After that we were able to make the final parts. We uses prepreg since it was available to us it easy and cleaner to work with but much more expensive. It needs to be refrigerated when stored it wont cure without be put in and oven or autoclave, but makes the strongest and the best looking parts. I am know expert in carbon fiber construction but we plane to build a carbon fiber monocoque chassis in 2010 so I should know quite a bit about carbon sandwich panels after we get done with that. Its very net stuff and can have awesome engineering applications
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Brian
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