How to Cast a Two-Part Compression Mould for Forged Carbon Fibre 

Thanks Jonathon, appreciated. We make these as genuine ‘try this at home’ tutorials, not just entertainment content. We want people to follow the process and get the same results; that’s why we try to leave nothing out 😀.

@@easycompositestv Definitely the best how to video's I've seen on RU-vid, although I figured the idea was it showed potential customers why it's worth paying the experts! :)

@@easycompositestv You are definitely achieving that goal and I couldn't ask for more. Thanks again.

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Really appreciate the awesome feedback, comments like this are why we keep producing content!

Thank you Julian, that’s high praise and makes us know it’s worth the extra effort.

Ahh, that’s our video guy Kyle’s work; he’ll appreciate the props!

Appreciate the great feedback, we'll have more videos out soon too!

You're welcome Victor, glad you're enjoying the content :)

Hi Mik, thank you for the comments, it's great to hear you're enjoying our content. this process does produce some nice looking parts although they have had a coat of clear coat to get them photo-shoot ready! Look forward to hearing how you get on with you next projects, you'll know kit cars are close to our hearts here at Easy Composites from the Carbon Mods days :)

Appreciate the really kind comment, if you need any getting started please us know :)

I purchased everything here and followed everything to a T. My bottom half of my mold came out decent. When casting the second half it some how bonded to the bottom half resulting a total loss. The only thing I may have done poorly was not allowing the wax to dry fully. Even though i waited the recommended 10 min intervals, my layer may have been too thick and not dried properly. Either way, I highly suggest you purchase from Easy Composites. the yellow filleting wax is an absolute must. I have tried everything under the sun and nothing performs as well as this stuff. The Easy Lease is also worth buying. Two coats just rubbed on and my plug from my mold released incredibly easy! Although my forged mold did not work out I will be buying more product from them. They are eager to help and are super nice people. If you are interested I plan on uploading my carbon process on my channel as I produce various parts for my hot rod truck.

I want to add, I do not think this is fault of the product but rather my inexperience

Always worth absorbing the information for when you can make use of it, thanks for the comment!

Appreciate the feedback! I'm glad you've enjoyed the series :)

Really appreciate the kind feedback Andre, really means a lot!

Cheers Steve, we appreciate the support. The more time spent in front of the camera, the more natural it becomes :)

Appreciate your comment, glad you enjoy the content :)

Thanks Michael, totally agree, it's something we'd really love to do. We've recently expanded with our European warehouse (hand forced by Brexit on that one) so we're getting a better understanding of what it means to open up overseas subsidiaries. In the meantime, we're going to work on ways to streamline our direct shipping from the UK to the US, we think we can make it even cheaper and easier to buy from us so watch this space.

Really appreciate the feedback Corey, glad you enjoy our editing and video style!

Looking forward to hearing how you get on Adrian. We’re really excited about getting this next video out there - we believe a lot in this process and there’s almost zero information out there about it already. Can’t wait to share it with you.

@@easycompositestv Really looking forward to it

You’re welcome, glad you’re enjoying them.

Appreciate the continued support Constantinos, you've been with us quite some time!

@@easycompositestv imagine i don't even work with carbon. you are, that level good ;)

Glad you like our approach, we have always been about sharing the knowledge.

Part 2 is currently in production, hopefully it won't be too long till Paul's finished in the studio!

No problem at all, appreciate the feedback. We really do our best to make quite complicated subjects as follow-able as possible. It’s great to hear we’re getting it right.

If you do try this out, we'd love to see what you make!

That's awesome, glad you are learning a lot from our videos :)

Thanks Ivan, it goes to show we can all continue learning, no matter what our experience or skill level. Thanks for the support.

Glad we could help!

Glad you enjoyed the video Rolf! The next video for the series will be out soon

Glad you like the video. Look out for the second part showing the Compression moulding process.

Thanks :-)

Glad you enjoyed the end result, if you try this out please let us know how you get on :)

Wow, that's great to hear Matthew, look forward to hearing how you get on.

Thank you for your comment, glad the technique helped!

A lot of makers now have access to 3D printing so it is a great way to use those skills to get into the composites world.

Hopefully you find the tips in the video useful :)

Thansk Leland. The next video in this series will be a bit more revelatory because we'll be demonstrating a process that there is almost *no* information available for!

Haha, thanks Bibin!

Thanks Tim!

Cheers Bryon, we're filming it this week so should have it edited an online in about 2 weeks. That's how much work goes into these things!

Appreciate the awesome feedback!

You won't have to wait too long :)

Appreciate the comment Peter, the next step will be released soon

Glad you enjoyed!

Yes, they did work out rather well. In the end, the moulds just fell apart so they could be considered a bit overkill but if you were using the moulds over and over then you’d probably start to appreciate little bits of finesse like this.

Thanks for your comment, you won't have to wait too long!

Thanks! Glad you like the videos. Videos take a long time to produce properly unfortunately, even for videos with a relatively short screen time. We always do extensive research and testing to ensure the content we give is accurate and meaningful plus the full editing process, reshoots etc does make it a long process.

@@easycompositestv we can definitely tell you guys do your research! Just don’t stop making content, we’ll take whatever we can get! Thanks heaps for all the incredibly helpful info!

Glad you enjoyed the end product :)

Appreciate the length of time you've been watching us, hopefully the does and don'ts are helpful!

Thanks for the kind feedback!

Appreciate the feedback :D

Glad you enjoyed the video Tony!

You’re very welcome Javier, thanks for watching.

Glad you enjoyed the video David!

Great to hear Hugo; well, I think we should have provided some good inspiration with our recent batch of tutorials featuring 3D printing applications in composites :)

Thanks for the kind comment!

@@easycompositestv just got to give appreciation when it's due Just love ALL your videos

Thank you for the comment. I think it would surprise most viewers how much work goes into planning, scripting, filming, re-scripting, re-filming these tutorials until they convey the information in a ‘natural’ way!

Haha, great, well, hopefully it won't be long - we're about half way through the filming. It's certainly going to be a very interesting video.

Thank you for the kind feedback!

Thanks Henk, sometimes it’s just enjoyable to understand a process even if you never need to follow it yourself 😀

Appreciate the feedback Danny!

Thanks!

We appreciate the kind comment!

You won't have to wait too long ;)

Thank you! Cheers Shompiras

Although it bypasses vacuum bagging itself, there is still a reasonable amount of force applied in the compression stage which replicates some of the forces involved in vacuum bagging. That helps with fibre consolidation and removing excess resin.

@@easycompositestv what sort of tonnage press are you looking at for the compression stage? Would a 10 tonne press be enough or would you need something beefier?

@@TheFatPandaIAm Obviously you could use a press but in the case of this part, we'll just be using G-Clamps - we'll cover this in detail in the upcoming video.

Appreciate the comment, we won't keep you waiting for too long!

Appreciate the comment, you won't have to wait too long

Really appreciate the comment!

Appreciate your comment James, more videos will be out very soon!

It won't be too long till the next video will be out :D

Glad you enjoyed how the video was presented, appreciate the comment Joseph

Glad you enjoyed :)

Thanks for the comment, glad you enjoyed the video!

Appreciate your kind comment, glad you enjoyed our video Arman!

Great, thanks for the feedback. Yes, we expect the 3D printed process to be the more common option but needed to make this video too so we already have the bases covered. Stay tuned.

Hi Joseph, hopefully the videos will answer all of your questions if not please let us know :)

@@easycompositestv I hope so. But what I am doing is making two half forged carbon parts as there are some undercuts in the model and a hard mold will not be able to remove from the inside once the carbon is hardened. So I make two half parts then join them afterward with the same resin. The tricky part now is how to make the joint seamless.

No problem at all, we'll have more out soon :)

Appreciate the feedback :D

It won't be long before part 2 is out :D

Thanks Diao, yes, we will; the next video will discuss the design and printing of the 3D tools which for most people is probably how they will make the tools for this process.

Happy you enjoyed our content, we'll have more videos out soon!

Its coming really soon :)

@@easycompositestv great, and thanks as ever for your great customer service with our most recent order!

@@jonathanw2036 We try our best!!