carbon fiber

OK Tyler,
heres what I would do,

First get a vacuum pump, the one from harbor freight will work well, I got two rotary pumps off of E-bay, either will work for you.

Second contact any one of the material suppliers and get a vacuum port/ thru the bag fitting. For most anything you are going to bag one will be enough. From the same supplier get say ten yards of 'Peel-Ply Fabric' make sure its coated prefferably with teflon. Also get some medium weight 'Bleeder Cloth" Ten yards will also do.

As I said earlier go to Home depot or Lowes and get a roll of 3mil painters plastic. Experience has shown me that any thinner painters plastic will have microscopic holes in it and you will never make a 'good' bag out of it. You will also need some 1/4" cheap plastic tubing and what ever brass fittings needed to get you from the pump to the hose. The bag fittings are already 1/4".

Then get some fiberglass cloth and some epoxy resin and something to bag, A piece of scrap plywood would be fine.

Next find a metal roofing supply house and get a few rolls of 1.25" wide 'Tacky Tape' or similar product. It will have two thickened edges and a thin center. This stuff makes the best bags.

Next you will make a test panel by cutting a piece of plastic twice the size of what you need , it will be folded in half to make the bag. Then run a layer of the tape in a 'U' shape at the perimiter of the botttom half of the bag without pulling off the paper backing tape. set the ply in the middle of the bag inside the tape and fold the bag over to make sure there is enough room for the bag to contract. then unfold the bag, mix the epoxy and saturate the cloth on top of the ply. Next cut a piece of the peel ply big enough to cover the panel and put it on top of the panel. Then cut a piece of bleeder cloth the full length of the panel and half the width and put it next to the panel on top of the peel ply. Pull the paper tape, and seal up the bag, Make sure to clean up any epoxy where you are trying to seal the bag before you pull the paper. Tacky tape and epoxy will not stick to each other.

Next take a razor blade and cut a small cross just big enough to get the thru/bag fitting into the bag on top of the bleeder cloth far enough away from the panel so as not to suck resin into the fitting. Seal the hole with tacky tape and evacuate the bag. Wait until the resin is either hard or very tacky before you turn off the pump. I usally keep the brush and whats ever left over to let me know at what point I can shut down the system. When the brush is hard or very tacke its time. If you do get resin in the fitting shut the system down and clean it out with laquer thinner and try again.

Hope this gets you started.
Andrew