{"id":1183,"date":"2011-11-19T07:00:43","date_gmt":"2011-11-19T14:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aiaaocrocketry.org\/?page_id=1183"},"modified":"2011-11-19T23:56:56","modified_gmt":"2011-11-20T06:56:56","slug":"material-sources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aiaaocrocketry.org\/?page_id=1183","title":{"rendered":"Raw Material Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The links on this page are for your convenience only. By policy, we cannot recommend commercial businesses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Laminating resin systems<\/strong> &#8211; two are most popular for composite construction in rocketry:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.westsystem.com\/ss\/\" target=\"_blank\">West Systems<\/a> is very popular and has a line or resins and fillers together with a lot of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westsystem.com\/ss\/product-technical-data\/\" target=\"_blank\">technical information<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westsystem.com\/ss\/product-selection-chart\" target=\"_blank\">selection guides<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westsystem.com\/ss\/use-guides\/\" target=\"_blank\">users guides<\/a> on their web site.\u00a0 West systems products are available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westsystem.com\/ss\/where-to-buy\/\" target=\"_blank\">many retailers<\/a>, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aircraftspruce.com\/search\/search.php?query=West+System&amp;search=1\" target=\"_blank\">Aircraft Spruce<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westmarine.com\/webapp\/wcs\/stores\/servlet\/SiteSearchView?PopularCat=No&amp;Ntk=Primary Search West Marine&amp;langId=-1&amp;searchTermScope=3&amp;catalogId=10001&amp;viewTaskName=SiteSearchView&amp;keyword=west system laminating&amp;Ne=69&amp;beginIndex=0&amp;Ntt=west system laminating&amp;storeId=11151&amp;Ntx=mode matchallpartial&amp;N=377+710+4294966881&amp;Ns=Most Popular|0&amp;pageSize=10&amp;sType=SimpleSearch\" target=\"_blank\">West Marine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ptm-w.com\/index.asp?pgid=15\" target=\"_blank\">Aeropoxy<\/a> also provides a system of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ptm-w.com\/index.asp?pgid=176\" target=\"_blank\">laminating resin<\/a>.\u00a0 They also have a lot of technical <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ptm-w.com\/index.asp?pgid=32\" target=\"_blank\">information available <\/a>on their web site.\u00a0 Aeropoxy can be purchased from many retailers, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aircraftspruce.com\/catalog\/cmpages\/aeropoxy.php\" target=\"_blank\">Aircraft Spruce<\/a>\u00a0 and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giantleaprocketry.com\/products_composites.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Giant Leap Rocketry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Carbon Fiber Cloth, Supplies, and DVDs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowaero.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">ShadowAero<\/a> is a great source of information (including a composite construction video series) on composite construction as well as kits and materials<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aircraftspruce.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Aircraft Spruce<\/a> carries all of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aircraftspruce.com\/menus\/cm\/vacuumbagging.html\" target=\"_blank\">vacuum bagging supplies<\/a> you need &#8211; and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aircraftspruce.com\/menus\/me\/carbonfiber.html\" target=\"_blank\">carbon<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aircraftspruce.com\/search\/search.php?query=Fiberglass+cloth&amp;search=1\" target=\"_blank\">fiberglass<\/a> material and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aircraftspruce.com\/search\/search.php?query=Fiberglass+resin&amp;search=1\" target=\"_blank\">resins<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/carbonsales.com\/Carbon-fabrics-Prepreg\/\" target=\"_blank\">Carbon and Fiberglass Sales<\/a> sells\u00a0pre-preg plain weave carbon fabric and a lot more<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fibreglast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fiberglast<\/a> sells pre-preg twill weave <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fibreglast.com\/product\/Prepreg_3K_2x2_Twill_Weave_Carbon_03101\/PrePreg_Fabrics\" target=\"_blank\">carbon\u00a0fabric<\/a> and pre-preg\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fibreglast.com\/product\/Prepreg_7781_E_Glass_3100\/PrePreg_Fabrics\" target=\"_blank\">fiberglass fabric<\/a>\u00a0as well as regular cloths, resins, and much more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cjcompositestechnology.com\/products\" target=\"_blank\">C&amp;J Composite Technology<\/a> handles a lot of different raw materials including some hybrid cloths of carbon fiber and kevlar for added strength.\u00a0 And you can find them on ebay.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freemansupply.com\/video.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Freeman Manufacturing<\/a> has all of your mold making supplies as well as on-line videos of how to use them.\u00a0 And if you sign up for their newsletter, they will send you a DVD of all of their videos for free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The links on this page are for your convenience only. By policy, we cannot recommend commercial businesses. Laminating resin systems &#8211; two are most popular for composite construction in rocketry: West Systems is very popular and has a line or resins and fillers together with a lot of technical information, selection guides\u00a0and users guides on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aiaaocrocketry.org\/?page_id=1183\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Raw Material Sources<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1029,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiaaocrocketry.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiaaocrocketry.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiaaocrocketry.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiaaocrocketry.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiaaocrocketry.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/aiaaocrocketry.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1187,"href":"https:\/\/aiaaocrocketry.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1183\/revisions\/1187"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiaaocrocketry.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiaaocrocketry.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}