Fiberglassing upside down, tricks?
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Forum Name: Fiberglass, Fabrication, and Interiors
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Topic: Fiberglassing upside down, tricks?
Posted By: gaines
Subject: Fiberglassing upside down, tricks?
Date Posted: April 28, 2006 at 12:34 AM
Today was my first attempt at creating a custom fiberglass enclosure. I got half of the fiberglass down, but had a terrible time getting it to stick on the underside of my trunk. I would really appreciate any tips or suggestions that some of the more experienced members might be able to share.
What I ended up doing to get this fiberglass to stay was to stick a trash bag to it and blow it up with my shop vac. This, hopefully, held the fiberglass up against the top of the trunk long enough to set.
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Posted By: jt73
Date Posted: April 28, 2006 at 3:52 PM
you could also try using 3m super 77 spray adhesive or something similiar and glue the mat down while waiting for your resin to go on...or use thixotropic powder...
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Posted By: bndallas
Date Posted: April 28, 2006 at 7:33 PM
don't go that high in the trunk. If you are doing it for the first time . do it from the side & bottom . fill the top in later , after you get the mould out of the car.
Posted By: smonster
Date Posted: April 29, 2006 at 1:12 AM
I would use a thixotropic powder. I use hollow glass spheres, they work great and it is only 6$ a jar. It stretches out batches of resin too, very cost effective and works real nice. I also agree with the spray adhesive. First things first though, make sure that you slap some resin down BEFORE the mat/cloth, let it tack up a minute or two even.
Just my .02
Posted By: austincustoms
Date Posted: May 08, 2006 at 11:23 AM
soak strips of mat, let them sit for a few minutes until they are tacky. Put them up, and squeegee/ roll excess resin out.
Posted By: smonster
Date Posted: May 08, 2006 at 4:57 PM
I like that, I'm going to give that a try!
Posted By: the rah
Date Posted: May 15, 2006 at 3:33 AM
can you take the trunk off??????????
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rah2son
Posted By: djfearny2
Date Posted: May 15, 2006 at 8:00 AM
you can go to selectproducts.com and they have a layup adhesive for use with resin. it will hold a lot longer than any other spray adhesive. because the resin actually deactivates the adhesive. there is many ways to do it but the tools make the difference.
one way i do it is take 1/2 x 1/2 strips cut certain ways that spray glue them to the car. than you use an upolstry stapler to adhere a light weight fabric to the strips so that the resin never comes incontact with the adhesive and keeps a form for drying, with spray glue what happens is the resin getts heavy from being upside down with out a stong bond from glue or staples or something the fabric with sag and ruin what your trying to accomplish.
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Jon
Installer/Help Technician
---coral springs florida---
mecp certification is not always needed. I have it and it has not helped me out at all. my experience out shines it.
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