fiberglass hatch cover

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Topic: fiberglass hatch cover

Posted By: adamzx3
Subject: fiberglass hatch cover
Date Posted: January 13, 2005 at 1:28 AM

I am making a fiberglass hatch cover for my 01 focus zx3 , heres some pics....tell me what you think , its my first fiberglassing experience....i decided to dive in and go for the molded ford logo....reallllly hard to prep for paint :)
not quite finished yet, waiting around for warmer weather haha

[image]https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v394/AdamZX3/hatch4.jpg[/image]
[image]https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v394/AdamZX3/hatch2.jpg[/image]
[image]https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v394/AdamZX3/hatch3.jpg[/image]
[image]https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v394/AdamZX3/hatch1.jpg[/image]
[image]https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v394/AdamZX3/cover01.jpg[/image]
[image]https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v394/AdamZX3/cover03.jpg[/image]
[image]https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v394/AdamZX3/Hatch%20Cover/DCP_0580.jpg[/image]
[image]https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v394/AdamZX3/Hatch%20Cover/DCP_0576.jpg[/image]

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Posted By: adamzx3
Date Posted: January 13, 2005 at 1:32 AM

why cant I edit my posts??
anywho heres the pics (hopefully)
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Posted By: realitycheck
Date Posted: January 13, 2005 at 11:04 AM

Hey man that looks awesome dude, especially for your first time at glassing, really good job. What did you cut out your letters with?

The reason you cant edit is you have to have 50 posts to edit them.

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Learning the trade one fiberglass creation at a time!

Posted By: 4doormadness
Date Posted: January 13, 2005 at 2:13 PM

Looks very nice so far, especially for your first try. Let us see the finished product.

thanks for sharing..

Posted By: adamzx3
Date Posted: January 13, 2005 at 7:16 PM

I used the scroll saw to cut them out on 1/4 inch plywood and used gorilla glue to glue em down. cutting them out was the easy part.....trying to fill the inside edges with bond...thats the tricky part lol. I'm waiting for warmer weather to paint it, still has a few pinholes but its gettin there.

Posted By: andherlaughter
Date Posted: January 14, 2005 at 1:24 AM

wow beats the hell out of my first glassing experiment

Posted By: realitycheck
Date Posted: January 14, 2005 at 8:12 AM

Cool man good job, keep us updated, yeah that bondo can sometimes be a pain.

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Learning the trade one fiberglass creation at a time!

Posted By: kosoku
Date Posted: January 14, 2005 at 9:55 AM

How'd you do it? Did you make some sort of frame first or just stretch fleece in the shape you wanted?

Posted By: Carbonb
Date Posted: January 14, 2005 at 10:11 AM

What is it for?

Posted By: auex
Date Posted: January 14, 2005 at 1:33 PM

What is it?

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Posted By: kosoku
Date Posted: January 14, 2005 at 1:48 PM

It is a cover for the space between the seat back on the rear seats and the back of the trunk lip. Some cars come with vinyl covers that you stretch over that area and others don't.

Posted By: adamzx3
Date Posted: January 17, 2005 at 2:02 AM

yepers exactly.....I already had a carpeted one on there but it had an ugly dip in the middle....so I stretched wide masking tape across the dip and then pulled a mold from the old one and created that fiberglass one...heres a pic of it inside my car

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and also a better lightly primered pic
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Posted By: realitycheck
Date Posted: January 17, 2005 at 8:31 AM

Man that is going to look awesome, man. Keep the pics coming im very interested in how it turns out.

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Learning the trade one fiberglass creation at a time!

Posted By: adamzx3
Date Posted: January 18, 2005 at 2:26 AM

thanks guys I wish I woulda posted this before....it keeps you going during the hours of sanding and bondoing, preping for paint I found is the most time consuming part

Anyone know where to get pre thinned 1part urathane paint from? I want to use my dads HPLV spraygun, though neither of us has used it before lol

Posted By: busy_pizzaman
Date Posted: January 18, 2005 at 9:30 PM

I got mine from NAPA, they can do a perfect color match. I think the product line was called "crossfire" Be sure to buy your primer somewhere else though, they wanted an arm and leg for it.

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Posted By: adamzx3
Date Posted: January 19, 2005 at 1:42 AM

cool how much for a pint/quart?

Posted By: bndallas
Date Posted: January 20, 2005 at 1:10 AM

I've seen this somewhere? Do you post on focaljet? But anyways looks good, I might think of doing something like that to my focus hatch cover , of course not like that but maybe i'll do zx3 somehow.