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 Posted 7/13/2007 6:24:20 PM |
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Yipee-ki-yay...
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| Cool Justin, you're always welcome...
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| Posted 7/16/2007 8:57:02 AM |
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Yipee-ki-yay...
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| Okay, so I glued and brad nailed it all together Friday and today I am adding body filler to fillet the edges and skimcoat the wood for a smoother finish. I cut a tool out of plexiglass to shape the fillets. I'm using actual "Bondo" which really seems to have a short working time. Maybe I'm mixing it too hot, but I hear that the Evercoat brand is MUCH better. I guess I should have looked for some place that sells Rage Gold or something over the weekend... 
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| Posted 7/16/2007 10:41:57 AM |
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Whose goin 4 a pint???
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I dunno what ur building man but for a girly-hipped master craftsman ur not bad at what you do. 
DE 66 IS COMING........
Believe and succeed
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| Posted 7/16/2007 11:17:08 AM |
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Has NO LIFE!!
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Just spray it with Feather fill and block sand it. That stuff is amazing, spray bondo. Oh and that looks great. You do very clean, precise work, take great pictures, and do a great job of explaining what you are doing. I've always liked about you.
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| Posted 7/16/2007 12:39:37 PM |
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Yipee-ki-yay...
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| Feather fill/Spray Bondo... I like the sound of that. Where do I get it?
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| Posted 7/16/2007 12:43:18 PM |
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Has NO LIFE!!
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I get mine from Eastwood. They were having a 10% sale. It was around $53 a gallon but you could get it in quarts. I used it on my wood project and it covered up all the wood grain and sealed it at the same time. I love the stuff.
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| Posted 7/17/2007 12:28:58 PM |
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Yipee-ki-yay...
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| I just sprayed the orange tooling gelcoat. Unfortunately, it really orange peeled. Hopefully some of it will smooth out as it sets up and I can wetsand the rest. Normally, the gelcoat is sprayed onto a mold (or a plug) and will be pulled off. The visible side is the side against the mold and the orange peel side then gets covered with layers of fiberglass. I've never done it this way before. In other words normally you work from the outside in and this time I built the mold from the inside out. 
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| Posted 7/17/2007 10:30:34 PM |
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Has NO LIFE!!
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Okay now I am lost for sure. What next?
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| Posted 7/18/2007 12:40:55 AM |
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Yipee-ki-yay...
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| That is the mold. Instead of creating a plug and then taking a mold from it, I just created the mold directly. The problem is the mold needs some work. I need to get rid of the orange peel as much as I can if I want to have a smooth finish on my parts. So I will wet sand it with a coarse paper to get rid of as much as I can and then move up to a 320, 400, 600, 1000 grit and then a polishing compound to get it smooth again. Then to lay up a part I will wax it with a mold release wax, spray it with a thin coat of PVA which creates a very thin plastic-wrap-like layer between the mold and the part. Once the PVA is dry I will start to layup the actual part. I'll start with a white gelcoat, then a couple layers of chop mat, then a layer of foam core material, then a couple more layers of mat. Once it cures I should be able to pop it out of the mold.
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| Posted 7/18/2007 12:45:42 AM |
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Yipee-ki-yay...
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| By the way, I wet-sanded my test piece and it came out okay. It had less orange peel on it but I still think it will work. Lots of sanding but I don't mind wet-sanding as much. Here is a picture of the test piece which is dry in this photo. 
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