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A typical vacuum bag setup

Vacuum Bagging Basics

By Rachael Geerts – GBI Composites Materials Engineer

Featured image (above): A typical vacuum bagging setup.

What is vacuum bagging?

Vacuum bagging is when a composite that is laid up and wet out by hand is then put under vacuum to compact the laminate and force out excess epoxy. Vacuum bagging has been a choice method of manufacturing and repairing composites for a long time. Continue reading

Packard woody wagon repaired with WEST SYSTEM Epoxy.

Readers’ Projects, Issue 49

Packard Wagon Restoration

Packard woody wagon panels

This is the Packard wagon I am redoing the wood on. Some of the original wood will be reused. I bleached all the wood before I varnished it so it will match. On the panels, I used 105 Resin and 207 Special Clear Hardener to epoxy the mahogany veneers to the steel door panels. I clamped them by vacuum bagging them. —Jeff Hobgood

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