Q.tool
Q-tool prepreg tooling technology (UK Patent GB2614600).
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Key Features
Technical specifications and capabilities
- Q.tool (UK Patent GB2614600) significantly reduces the time and costs of tool manufacture, with its uniquely designed fabric architecture
- Using our class-leading RP800 epoxy tooling system, the combination of Q.tool’s new surface and 1020g/m2 bulk plies provides the same weight and thickness as the 1:8:1 system, and significantly reduces the number of debulks to as few as one
- Q.tool is unique in that it has considerably less enclosed free space than conventional 2/2 twill prepregs. By enclosed free space is meant the volume within the fabric which is not filled with fibre. It is in these areas, which fill with matrix, that air in the prepreg will migrate, causing pin holing in the surface and through thickness porosity. Heavier fibre tows result in increased crimp and therefore more enclosed space which requires a higher number of debulks to counter this. Q.tool only requires one debulk in the entire layup process.
- RP800 offers variable cure cycles: 12 hours at 45°C, 8 hours at 50°C and 5 hours at 70°C