squires500 wrote:
ckeeler wrote:
i dont use fleece, never have. im not exactly sure when people started using fleece anyway. i always use nylon. reinforce from the inside, not the outside. (cant figure out why people do that either, just makes for way more work than needed). |
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how do you reinforce tight corners from the inside of your box?? |
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always, always, always, build your boxes so that they have no back side. then reinforce from the inside. and thats how you reinforce tight corners from the inside of your box.
here are just a few tips for anyone out there because i see alot of people doing things "strangely" when it comes to this stuff (IMHO).
1.) if possible, always use nylon or jersey material or grill cloth, something thin rather than thick like fleece or carpet. in the end you are going to have something much stronger this way. use something that does not have a bunch of "fuzzies" or "hairs" all over it. you just cause yourself more work with that type of material because you are a.) either going to have to sand all that crap off, or b.) cover the whole thing in body filler, and then sand all that junk anyway, which i think is a wiz poor way of doing things and makes way more work for you then needed to begin with. so......the choice of material is important and i recommend staying away from fleece.
2.) no matter what the project, if there is anyway possible at all, LEAVE ACCESS TO THE BACK SIDE. why? so you can reinforce from the inside. that means in the initial stages of making the MDF structural portion of your enclosure, or other project, plan ahead and build it in a manner so that there is no rear panel, that way you can reinforce the box on the INSIDE not the outside (as they say in the Guiness beer comercials, "BRILLIANT!!"). you can always add your rear panel later once you are all done reinforcing and if it happens to not be an enclosure, maybe you dont even need a rear panel. are we seeing the common idea here folks? by doing things a little different in the initial stages, you are creating WAY less work for yourself later on and you will end up with a nicer product.
3.) touching on number 1 again, once you are done reinforcing, and given the fact that you used something like the material mentioned, you should end up with something fairly nice to start before even doing any sanding. in other words (if you put enough resin on the material before you started the reinforcing stage) it should be shiney and smooth already. all you need do now is find the areas that actually need the shape modified a bit or blended in and sand thoses areas with 40-60 grit so that body filler will stick to it, and do your magic with it. once you get it where you want with what ever grit you prefer, go ahead and sand the rest of your project so as to remove any minor imperfections in the surface resin from the very first stage of putting resin on the jersey material as well. blend in your body filler. guess what? now your ready for a few coats of filler primer and some finish sanding...thats it.
you should end up with an outside surface that is mostly the original resin with only a few spots here and there that have body filler before you primer. you didnt have to "bondo" over the whole entire thing and then have to sand all that bondo. thats a crazy way of going about it. not only that, my customers want to have, and i want to give them, a "fiberglass enclosure" when they pay me to build them one, not a piece of "fleece covered in bondo". yuck! all that bondo = nothing more than a weak, most likely gonna crack, pile-o-crap. and look at all the sanding it took to make it too!! why that style or method is so popular is beyond me.