any one have carbon fiber?

71 Dustar:
You missunderstood me.
I do not sell components or supplies and I am not here to sell anybody anything.
There are links for supplies on my site or when I get back to the house I can dig up some more contacts for you.

As far as the vacuum system goes I would be glad to help you put one together. I built mine from scratch and it was not that difficult. The difficulty in what I do is developing multiple use molds that produce parts to very tight tolorances.
In the mean time you will need the following:
1-A vacuum pump,for vacuum bagging all you need is an old rotory vane pump. If you can find a used AC vacuum pump all the better.
2-I have a reserve tank made out of an old water heater tank. I braised all but one opening shut with threaded steel plugs and braising rod. You may or may not want to go that far.
3- you will need a guage on the pump and a guage on the piece you are bagging, along with the hoses for connections.
4- You can make the "bag" out of 2 mil painters plastic and "TackyTape" you can get the tape from metal roofers or even maybe Home Depot in their roofing section.
5- you will need these layers from the finished part out twoards the bag
A- peel ply-A release material that leaves the desired surface finish and still allows exess resin to flow through and get absorbed by the bleeder cloth.
B-Bleeder cloth-this layer absorbs exess resin and is pourous enough for the vacuum to travel through and be evenly distributed to the piece. On larger pieces you will need multiple vacuum ports for even distribution and a quicker draw down of the bag.

For supplies on a small scale try:
Airtech @ www.airtechintl.com- vacuum bagging supplies
for resins and fabric I don't have the info with me here I will get you some when I get back to the house.
I still think you can get a better deal on 8K fabric and make sure it is standard modulous stuff, for your application thats all you need. 3K is usally intermediate modolous. The higher the modulous the more the money.

Andrew