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This section wants to give you an overview of the most valuable resources for hands-on information about working with composites, ranging from websites over YouTube movies to DVDs and books. The resources have been classified in the following categories:

• general skills
• organizing your composite workshop
• modelling (R/C airplanes, warbird models,...)
• home made bikes
• building surfboards and snowboards
• boat building
• car tuning
• homebuilt aircraft

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You Tube videos by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) This series of videos shows a lot of composites manufacturing processes.

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You Tube videos by a young enthusiastic composite user LAYOP This series of videos shows the moulding of a composite with carbon fibre fabric.

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You Tube videos by the MojaveRobotics This series of videos shows how to do a composite lay-up.

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You Tube videos by the Stanford University This series of videos shows how the Stanford team has built their solar car.

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Instruction videos for sale by Bill Hayman Two DVDs for sale "Vacuum bagging made easy" (featuring Phil Barnes) and "Composite molding made easy" (featuring Terry Luckenbach).

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Renting DVDs on fibreglass in USA Smartflix rents DVDs about fibreglass to customers in USA

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DVDs about vacuum infusion Series of DVDs about vacuum infusion and closed moulding techniques by Andre Cocquyt.

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Do-it-yourself resin infusion starter kit DVD about resin infusion by a Dutch engineer who has built his own trimaran.

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Fiberglass Mold Making & Repair Manuals by Steve Jones Manuals for Fiberglass mold making and composite repair

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Advanced resin casting with vacuum injection Detailed step-by-step instructions for resin casting (with a lot of pictures)

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Cheap vacuum pump design "The cheap little sucker", how to build a vacuum pump for 20 USD

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Fiberlay How To's Under the section "How To's" you can find a lot of practical information about working with epoxies and polyesters, making moulds and casting resins.

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Learning Center from Fibre Glast Developments Very nice free online brochures on the vacuum bagging and vacuum infusion process, and a lot more.

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Gelcoat application and spray-up Under the section "Technical support" you can find more information about applying a gelcoat and using spray-up.

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Mixing epoxies Some practical guidelines about mixing the resin and the hardener in case of two-component epoxies.

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Lost foam technique for making fibreglass parts Detailed description for using the lost foam technique, a fast and straightforward technique for making your first composite parts.

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Technical documentation by Hexcel Free online brochures and datasheets about composite repair, prepreg technology and resin transfer moulding.

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Making fibreglass moulds by Steve Jones Instructive manual about making fibreglass moulds

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The vacuum infusion process by Fibre Glast Detailed practical description of the vacuum infusion process

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Alistair Cunningham's workshop for resin infusion Alistair Cunningham has set-up his own composite workshop and shares his pictures on this webpage.

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Ryan Aircraft's homepage on World War II warbird models A lot of short tutorials on sheeting foam wings and using glass fibre.

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Winship Models' homepage on model airplanes This website gives a very comprehensive overview on the use of carbon composites in model airplanes.

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Covering models with fibreglass cloth, by Jim Ryan How-to article for covering models with fibre-reinforced glass cloth.

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Articles about radio control (R/C) sailplanes A lot of short articles and tutorials for building radio control (R/C) sailplanes with composites.

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How to vacuum bag foam wings with balsa skins, by Ralph Weaver Instructive overview of all steps in making a fibre-glass wing with foam core, using the vacuum bagging process.

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Technique of vacuum bagging to construct foam core wings Chris Fouquet explains how to use the vacuum bagging technique to construct foam core wings.

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Home made carbon composite bike by Damon Rinard This website describes the complete process of building a carbon fibre/epoxy composite bike.

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North American handmade bicycle show This website advertises the North American handmade bicycle show.

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Anthony's surfboard building links Anthony's surfboard building links with a detailed description of the manufacture of a surfboard.

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The Complete Surfing Guide for Coaches This website contains the web version of a book, describing the fibreglassing of a surfboard.

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Build your own surfboard Building your own custom board: detailed overview with a lot of pictures.

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Build your own snowboard This website contains detailed step-by-step instructions for building your own snowboard.

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Boatbuilding ring List of websites about boatbuilding.

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FiberGlassics Classic Fiberglass boating contains a lot of articles and tutorials, but navigation through the website is very difficult.

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Fram sailing and building pages This website describes home building a F-39 trimaran.

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Building a foam core boat A book written by Ron Palmer (Trafford Publishing, ISBN 155212455X)

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Building a fibreglass body mould Building a fibreglass body mould for a Plymouth Coupe oldtimer car.

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Car tuning tutorials for carbon fibre List of links about using carbon fibre in car tuning (quite cumbersome navigation).

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Homebuilt aircraft (Wikipedia) Short introduction to homebuilt aircraft.

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Builders guide to safe aircraft materials by the Recreational Aviation Australia Scroll to "Part C. airframe materials – fabrics, composites and coatings" of this Builders guide to safe aircraft materials

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Mark Langford's KR2S aircraft Mark Langford's homebuilt airplane and online builder's manual.

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Berkut #013 homebuilt aircraft A lot of useful information about building your own homebuilt aircraft

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Homebuilt Cozy aircraft This website describes the complete process of building an aircraft from scratch.

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Building a composite propeller This page describes a simple method of making a two bladed composite propeller. The basic idea is to make an open mold using an existing propeller as a plug. The curved side of the new propeller is made in the mold and the flat side is filled, ground, filed and sanded for the proper shape.

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Finishing a composite airplane This website describes the proper methodology to finish a composite wing of an airplane.

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List of homebuilt and experimental aircraft Long list of links to homebuilt and experimental aircraft.

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List of homebuilt aircraft Very exhaustive list of links to homebuilt or kit-built aircraft.