Vacuum bagging at altitude?
Posted: Sun May 10, 2009 6:00 pm
Howdy,
Just ran across this site about a week ago. Before finding it, I had thought about building my own skis from time to time (I build my own bike frames), but I didn't think I had the background in skiing to know how to design a ski layup when it came to # of layers of fiberglass, core thickenss, etc. However, it seems like it's a lot more straightforward than I'd thought.
Making a ski press doesn't seem to difficult. Perhaps a bit pricey, but mainly I'm concerned about where I'd keep it. Vacuum bagging, however, seems a lot easier to me. It seems the lower pressure of a vacuum bag is an issue. I wonder if the one+ fewer PSI I could achieve living near Denver would be a problem vs. sea level? Pretty sure I'm being stupid here, but gotta start somewhere...
And if you think I'm being _really_ dumb with bypassing the press, then please convince me.
Just ran across this site about a week ago. Before finding it, I had thought about building my own skis from time to time (I build my own bike frames), but I didn't think I had the background in skiing to know how to design a ski layup when it came to # of layers of fiberglass, core thickenss, etc. However, it seems like it's a lot more straightforward than I'd thought.
Making a ski press doesn't seem to difficult. Perhaps a bit pricey, but mainly I'm concerned about where I'd keep it. Vacuum bagging, however, seems a lot easier to me. It seems the lower pressure of a vacuum bag is an issue. I wonder if the one+ fewer PSI I could achieve living near Denver would be a problem vs. sea level? Pretty sure I'm being stupid here, but gotta start somewhere...
And if you think I'm being _really_ dumb with bypassing the press, then please convince me.