FIBERGLASS TECHNOLOGY
This page is not a detailed description of what vacuum infusion (or whatever you want to call it) is. There is a bit of stuff on the web describing this technique but most infusion work on the web is for boat-building. But working on the model scale is a little different and that is what this page is about. To see the sort of things I make see my I have occasionally done something crudely resembling vacuum infusion by simply adding resin into the bottom of a plastic bag, placing my “job” next to it, then a resin trap made of tissue paper and shoving a vacuum line into the open end and then sealing the bag around it. This kind of works (sometimes) but there is the same time pressure that you have with other wet layups - you have resin with a limited working time and the clock is ticking. When things go wrong things can get really messy really quickly. The other problem was the infusion was slow and unless I h...