Advised prerequisites:
Enroll our basic composites course 
TECH-001 Basic Composites and fabrication course, or other similar Basic Composite repair knowledge gained in the industry.

Personnel of technical departments having prior experience in working with fiber Reinforced Composites such as glass fiber, carbon fiber, and Aramid Kevlar to gain a better understanding of curing advanced composite materials with Single and/or Dual-zone Hot Bonder Heat consoles.
This to control the heat application, vacuum, and time necessary to dry, cure critically sensitive composite parts with Resin, Film and Foam adhesives

 

Minimum required 2 and maximum 4 per course^*.

* Courses will be confirmed as running by EFC as soon as sufficient applications are received!

To provide participants with the theoretical knowledge and Hands-On practical skills necessary to carry out a good hot bonded repair and control using a single and/or dual Hot Bond heat console.

At the end of this course, the participant:

• Can work according to Safety regulations and recognize Hazardous situations & materials
• Must be able to work independently with minimum supervision
• Must be attentive to details in working with a Heat console, Thermocouple placement and correct heat blanket usage.
• Can perform composites repairs on carbon fiber, glass fiber and aramid fiber. (Kevlar)
• Can check Thermocouple wires, heat blankets before installation
• Can repair TC wires ends by welding
• Knows the materials used and its properties and is familiar with “Handling & Storage” of frozen materials
• Can perform a dry cycle cure
• Can monitor, program, program changes and abort running cure cycles
• Can save programs, save a cycle for printing
• Can use and program Dual-zone  Hot-bonders ANITA EZ from GMI AERO  (Link: GMI AERO EFC partner in Hotbonders)

Course content theory Level 1-2

• Health and Safety of using AC/DC high powered Hot bond systems on composite parts
• Different brand/types of Hot Bonders compared the pros and cons.
• Hot bond terminology (composite glossary of terms (SAE- AIR4844)
• How a Heat blanket works, needs to be checked and use of its active area
• How Thermocouples (TC’s) work, are inspected, repaired and welded
• How a TC is placed on /in various materials and perform TC. mapping
• How to handle Cold & hot spots and apply heatsink insulation
• How handle High temp 171  C. (350 F.)  cures and insulation of a heat blanket
• Cycle running, changes, monitoring and cycle abort 
• Programming of more than three-step cure cycles
• Use of ceramic and UV heat lamps and other heat devices controlled by a Hot Bonder.
• How to Store cured cycles on PC/Lap Top on USB and Print cured cycles.
• File cured cycle for record-keeping and print out with the part if repaired.

Workshop exercises Level 1-2

Participants will be intensively monitored during the installation and use of different types of Single & Dual-zone Hot bonders.

The participant can:

• connect all necessary equipment, cables to the bonder/Heat console
• program any Hot bonder,
• check & install thermocouples
• check and places heat blankets on a composite part 
• Brings on vacuum bags and performs leak checks-Up of all vacuum materials per OEM spec,
• perform vacuum leak checking and curing.
• Determine the correct size of heat blankets according to the specific repair sizeApply Thermocouple mapping. Apply materials and vacuum bags, run a cure cycle and monitor the Hot-bonder while running. Correctly de-bag the vacuum bag removing TC’s and heat blankets

• Multiple choice questions from each of the teachings Level 1-2
• Successful completion is 75% correct answers.
• The examination will be a closed book and can be conducted by a Part 147 approved Examiner upon request.
• The practical mark will be the average of all marks gained from the practical exercises.
• All grades will be recorded in the participant individual training records and kept on paper at EFC for unlimited time (compliant with Reference EASA Commission Regulation (EU) No 1321/2014) 
• A certificate of accomplishment is handed out to each participant.
• Assessment activities are built into our courses, to give feedback on the achievement and personal potential and kept a record in their personal logbook.
• The outcome of the participant's Examination, assessment document and logbook per student will be digitally sent to your company responsible manager or HR department.
• We also comply with the European  GDPR rules as effective on May 25th, 2018, concerning private information storage of participants who attended our courses.

This course can also be held at our facility in Leipzig Germany at the facilities of our partner HEICO. If you have a need for this, please contact our purchasing manager Rolf Hovener via his page. For your company to benefit, this course can be held 'On-Site' at your facility under certain conditions.
Click on this link to the Onsite information webpage!

Courses as noted on our course schedule page can be run on request to meet your required start and end date. All listed course prices are Excl VAT. (Dutch VAT is 21%). EFC complies with Dutch tax laws. On request, companies can be sent an invoice instead of paying direct On-line with PayPal, IDEAL or credit card.

Payment is securely arranged via Mollie.nl . More information can be found on the website of Mollie.