Laminate Gluing Pressure

[Ron Nossaman]

>We could use a higher vacuum to glue the panel to the ribs, but the higher 
>the vacuum the greater the risk of distorting the panel down between the ribs.

At what price? If the jig holding the possibly not perfectly thicknesses 
and contoured ribs failed to position the ribs such that the contours of 
the crowns of consecutive ribs weren't contiguous (projective??) across the 
entire under surface of the panel being formed over them, wouldn't some 
allowable distortion of the panel allow compliance of the panel to the rib 
contours since this assembly method doesn't allow compliance of the ribs to 
the panel? Something has to met something half way when the parts being 
assembled are less than perfect - as will be the case in real production, 
and if this allowance isn't built into the assembly method, it isn't going 
to happen.

Ron N