Making me a carbon fiber valence **edit errr something. making something sometime.

[BraveUlysses]

Did you make this with resin infusion or hand layup? the fibers look pretty dry at the opening of the duct

interested to see the valence when its done

[Wergen7]

Did you make this with resin infusion or hand layup? the fibers look pretty dry at the opening of the duct

interested to see the valence when its done

I wet bagged all these parts. There is no doubt in my mind they were are all over saturated to some degree. What you are seeing is a combination of some chips from driving/ dust, some leftover bits of the in-mold clear coat that didn't stick. That patchy section on the right is the only spot it did stick. Plus what is possibly the start of some UV degradation at the tip due to the type of epoxy I had access to at my school. There are much better epoxies for this type of application out there. Plus if you really want to get into it, I laid this up around 4am when I had to be out by that morning. I had to take the part OFF vacuum and transfer it to my house through freezing temps while the part was still curing, hence the in-mold clear not sticking. So the curing of the scoop was pretty sketchy all around unfortunately.

[Wergen7]

....absolutely stunning......."give it up people"
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Appreciate it! Thats some #big font man.

is rhino parametric? i want to do some stuff like this in fusion360

I think so. It's a "NURBS" based program which I believe qualifies it as parametric. There is a hell of a lot you can do with rhino and its plug-ins

[BraveUlysses]

I wet bagged all these parts. There is no doubt in my mind they were are all over saturated to some degree. What you are seeing is a combination of some chips from driving/ dust, some leftover bits of the in-mold clear coat that didn't stick. That patchy section on the right is the only spot it did stick. Plus what is possibly the start of some UV degradation at the tip due to the type of epoxy I had access to at my school. There are much better epoxies for this type of application out there. Plus if you really want to get into it, I laid this up around 4am when I had to be out by that morning. I had to take the part OFF vacuum and transfer it to my house through freezing temps while the part was still curing, hence the in-mold clear not sticking. So the curing of the scoop was pretty sketchy all around unfortunately.

no worries! looks like you're learning a ton and turning it into a useful skill