autoclave and what you wife likes

[wolbrink471]

Hello 1212FBGS

I hope you don't take this like a total stranger coming up and asking about what your wife likes, but do you have an autoclave at your 'shop/business' ?

Mark

[1212FBGS]

hey Mark
we have an oven to cure prepregs and other materials that do not have an exothermic reaction but dont have an autoclave... my wife likes diamonds, chocolate, her dogs, and sometimes even me..LOL...good thing you didn't as what she likes about me cuz i wouldn't have much to write about.....
kent

[Glen]

All this time I thought an autoclave was a big breasted woman, or was that cleave.

[836dstr]

Glen,

"Autocleave", would that be some type push up Bra?

Tom

[Seldom Seen Slim]

Hey, Kent -- if you're in the market for an autoclave -- I've got one that's available for you.  Approx. 6 feet diameter, 11 feet long.  Has all the associated systems to make it run -- hard vacuum pump (down to at least 2.5psiA, maybe harder vacuum), 3 million BTU/hr natural gas boiler rated up to 100 psi, computer operating controls, water treatment facility, all piping and automatic valves.  Works well. 

Is this the kind of autoclave you're talking about?

[wolbrink471]

oops.......here I am trying to be funny like with the wife comments and trying to use big words and all

I guess I was really asking about just an oven for curing prepregs....not an autoclave for sterilizing.

Mark


 

[Dean Los Angeles]

An autoclave is a pressurized oven. Composites generally don't need pressure, or to put it another way, the gains are minimal.

A vacuum oven is more like what you may be referring to.

With vacuum bagging the only thing you need is an oven.

[1212FBGS]

yes i have an 4'x4'x8' for curing prepregs. an autoclave is common and useful in curing composites. i learned long ago NOT to use my oven at home... yes the hard way....
kent

[JackD]

Remember  Kent, timing is everything.

[1212FBGS]

sometimes the smell lingers a little too long
kent