First glassing project, Kick panels

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Forum Name: Fiberglass, Fabrication, and Interiors
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Topic: First glassing project, Kick panels

Posted By: Sessland
Subject: First glassing project, Kick panels
Date Posted: February 14, 2006 at 6:43 PM

So I decided to get started on my first glass project today.

Everything was going fairly well once I got the hang of working with the mat, but in the back of my head I was wondering why it was taking so long for it to get hard...

turns out I'm an idiot and shoulnd't be allowed near numbers. posted_image

Ratio I was using was 9-10 drops of hardner per ounce of resin....but what I didn't do was scale up my hardner since I was using 6 ounces!!

So, I'll wait a few more hours and see if this stuff is getting anywhere near close to being hard...if not we'll start from scratch in the morning.

Tick tock, tick tock

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Posted By: psychographic
Date Posted: February 15, 2006 at 4:52 PM

Puy a heat lamp on it. just keep an eye out for anything getting to hot. Adding heat to it will help speed the "curing".Fibergalass actually does'nt need a hardener It just speeds up the process.

Posted By: jlord16
Date Posted: February 15, 2006 at 8:28 PM

Yeah, heat will cure fibreglass the hardener just acceltaes the process at room temperature and in turn creates heat (exothermic)

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Clarion DB36MP
Infinity Kappa Perfect 10"
Respone 800w Mono
ALPINE MRP-F250
*Custom fabrications*

Posted By: dstang24
Date Posted: February 16, 2006 at 12:56 AM

jlord16 wrote:

Yeah, heat will cure fibreglass the hardener just acceltaes the process at room temperature and in turn creates heat (exothermic)

Looks like we have a chemist on our hands. One semester of chemistry and I understand the car audio environment better...

Posted By: jlord16
Date Posted: February 16, 2006 at 5:49 AM

Yeah well im studying Engineering so its alota chemistry, physics, maths and computer design/mock up's, it certianly helps in the car audio field alot

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Clarion DB36MP
Infinity Kappa Perfect 10"
Respone 800w Mono
ALPINE MRP-F250
*Custom fabrications*

Posted By: Sessland
Date Posted: February 17, 2006 at 12:13 AM

I threw all that away when I realized it wasn't even close to curing the next day!

Next day I got the mixture down a bit better. Seems like 9 drops per ounce was the sweet spot.

After a few months of reading posts on the forum I finally got my feet wet.

Played a bit for a couple days and will be posting some pics of the kicks soon.

So far I was a bit side tracked making a "dash kit" for the Honda Passport. Came out pretty decent for a first try even though it looks pretty rough on the rear end.

Most importantly it works fine, sits nice and tight and lines up perfect with the stock molding! Only I know what's back there posted_image

More progress on the way...

Posted By: dstang24
Date Posted: February 17, 2006 at 12:21 AM

jlord16 wrote:

Yeah well im studying Engineering so its alota chemistry, physics, maths and computer design/mock up's, it certianly helps in the car audio field alot

Electrical Engineering here... I hear ya!!!

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