Wetting Out BID & UNI

[Cozy1200]

Is it me or does BID wet out a lot easier than UNI?

 

I did the back side of the LG bulkheads tonight and it just seems to take more epoxy and work to get UNI to wet out.

 

Senior builders, wadda ya say?

[Jason Heath]

Senior builders, wadda ya say?

Your right, it does, each tow is larger and requires more time, work whatever you want to call it to soak up the resin. All the little bubbles that are rather easy to get out of BID usually need to be chased out the ends of a UNI layup, personaly, I use a roller for that, but you can drive bubbles into the previous layers and/or distort them if not careful. Technic, practice etc.... Try the hair dryer trick next time and see if it helps.

 

edit: BID will use more epoxy per squarefoot than UNI, but you will probably use more epoxy (as you've found out) to get the UNI to wet out.