what did u use to cover the rear tyre?
Then I could get a Kb Tshirt, move to Timaru and become a full time crossdressing faggot
also there will be a shit load of sanding, and DO NOT do in it a painting booth... dust is the enemy of paint!!!
Then I could get a Kb Tshirt, move to Timaru and become a full time crossdressing faggot
Tin foil to cover the tyre, just sanded it off with a flap wheel on the angle grinder. I got some decent bog which makes it way easier to get a smooth surface and reduces sanding, also not caring so much about the bits you don't see reduces a lot too :P Just been sanding in the garden, made a hell of a mess with the flap wheel!
"A shark on whiskey is mighty risky, but a shark on beer is a beer engineer" - Tad Ghostal
Probably a bit late but we used packing tape over any parts used as a quick and dirty mold.
The binder that holds the fibres together in CSM doesn't dissolve as well with epoxy and leaves a milky finish. Polyester or vinylester is cheaper. CSM and its fibre binder was designed for it.
If your building up layers use CSM, woven, CSM layers they are stronger that two layers of cloth (boat building fail). You can get woven with CSM on one side if your fancy. You can trim the job roughly with a knife before it sets fully.
It stinks like car bog being almost the same stuff. CRC's marine bog is vinylester based and is used for plastic repair.
Epoxy should be used with woven cloth and rolled untill its almost transparent.
Shower bases and baths etc use polyester on the underside of the plastic with some pigment in the last layer. Probably just a 600 gsm and a 450 maybe some core mat on the flats.
"Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it."
-Lou Holtz
mounted hugger
Obviously not up to the standard as production composite stuff, but not bad for a first go I reckon.
"A shark on whiskey is mighty risky, but a shark on beer is a beer engineer" - Tad Ghostal
note to self, no fibreglassing when doug is around
"A shark on whiskey is mighty risky, but a shark on beer is a beer engineer" - Tad Ghostal
nice job, so what's next?
"Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it."
-Lou Holtz
A little trick for difficult areas is to mix up a small amount of resin with glue powder, you brush resin over the areas your going to glass then cove a little of the mixed glue in any corners you know the glass will sit up (don't be to neat), place the glass and wet it out (if you don't pre wet it out) like normal. Just roll the glass into the glue mix like its resin.
It stops any voids being left and softens the radius for the next layers.
"Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it."
-Lou Holtz
bogan.... congrats!
the hugger is awesome.
incredibly well done considering it's a diy product...
now, i'd like to steal the topic to ask if in your opinion it is possible to add a fairing (full or demi) to a street triple....
"A shark on whiskey is mighty risky, but a shark on beer is a beer engineer" - Tad Ghostal
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