fg box, aluminum substructure

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Topic: fg box, aluminum substructure

Posted By: gn4whln
Subject: fg box, aluminum substructure
Date Posted: April 16, 2009 at 4:21 PM

Has anyone here built a fiberglass box using a welded aluminum, stainless, or mild steel substructure? If so, I was wondering if anyone has had any adhesion problems between the glass and metal. I am thinking of building a box like this for my '99 Ram using the aluminum to form the skeleton internally and the mounting externally.

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Posted By: ckeeler
Date Posted: April 16, 2009 at 4:24 PM

fiberglass sticks very well to almost any type of metal. just make it extremely rough before hand and clean it well with alcohol.

Posted By: gn4whln
Date Posted: April 16, 2009 at 5:35 PM

Thanks! I have always built MDF boxes but I have decided I wanted to build a fiberglass box this time so I was doing some research on the construction techniques and got to thinking I could build a stiff, lightweight, structure out of aluminum. Now, if I can only create time out of thin air to get this thing done, I'll be set.

Posted By: ckeeler
Date Posted: April 16, 2009 at 8:08 PM

gn4whln wrote:

Now, if I can only create time out of thin air to get this thing done, I'll be set.

man if you can pulloff that let me know how you did it. posted_image

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