CF dash cover with gauges progress pics
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I just deed the 12rotar swap INTOM YHANDO cbr motorcycle WHIOCH IS ISIMILARIT O DIRTBIKE. Project were to be costing me up in the dollars of $120 and cbr now run 1 second quertar mile!@@!!!!!!111!!! Pm meffor deatails!!!
(Notice I even used the language prefered by retards on forums, some kind of mix of english, german, spanish, and caps lock)
(Notice I even used the language prefered by retards on forums, some kind of mix of english, german, spanish, and caps lock)
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From: Little rock
hey dl what do you use to make your molds. do make a reverse cast mold. or do you just overlay the fiber over the original with some sort of release agent? just wondering, i've began fabricating with fiberglass and wanted to be able to replicate if I make some thing worth fabricating.
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well dude, the best advice is to find something eay to make your plugs with. Very simple. At first i was using urethane foam which is expensive and very messy and PITA. Balsa wood works very well with fiberglass and in some instances used to reinforce it. It is easy to make skeletons out of and then to panel over by using hot glue. Do a quick touch up sand and then glass over with cloth or a mat, depending on the strength neccesary. Sand the glass a bit and then use some bondo, sand it down and then you have your prototype. After this use some release wax, two or three layers, and then layap some pva, which is a really cool release agent. 2 or three layers of this should do you up really good and then you lay down your gel coat and fiberglass.....now you have a mold. Do the same on the reverse and wala, now you have a replica. There are so many things, small things that you can do wrong and screw up that just come with experience. People are amazed at the stuff I do thinking I am crazy and it takes mad skillz or something, when a little over a year ago i never touched fiberglass really in my life. I saw a thread on this forum with 88integraLS chopping his bumper up and said, "hey what the hell, it doesnt look too hard, let me give it a shot". My first mistake was experimenting with something as large and complex as a hood, a surface so big where soo many things can go wrong, but i was so overmotivated with an urge to express and show what i had in my mind I kept pushing and ended up selling the hood to a guy in louisiana who is actually pretty happy with the thing. My first every anything from fiberglass and it was good enough to sell. Not too shabby. I have since had a few prototypes, still hoods and what not to get that constantly creative energy out of my body and there has always been one thing to go wrong that has happenned on each that i have learned from and now I am getting it down well. These small things like what tools to use, how to watch better for bubbles, resins and curing temperatures, reinforcements that print thru and what not, could have been much better learned by practicing on something small, instead of something large and expensive. Thank God for the experience and the success and fun that I have had an now i am picking up the pace and really just putting pretty much any idea in my head into creation. It is a lot of fun and i would really like to see someone else give it a shot.
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From: Little rock
thanks for the info. wife won't be happy though she hates it when i work with the stuff. She smells it everywhere in the house. Need a shop, right now everything is done on the carport. Leaves big messes.
thanx again.
thanx again.
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aight guys i got this thing down now....i made another prototype that turned out great, just a bubble or two that I now have under control on the first pro and also just need to get that gel coat BLACK.....it looks nice and black then it cures lighter.....just more pigment....anyhow ill take a few more pics in a bit......ill take four orders before i leave
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as you can see the gauge holder is actually deep enough to where you can fit some gauges in it now 
and i have an uncircumcised shifter surround......also you can see i left that face of it in cf and the rest in gel coat and cf, next time around the gel coat will be much darker God willing and it will be perfect.... Also the line on the right is not a seam, the seam is on the left but not visible. Thats what happens when you are doing a lay up and a string of it falls into the mold and you dont see it until you pull the mold. Ill sell them for 159 now....ill take four orders before sunday and when i get back they will be 179. Also the shifter surround i will sell for 29, but it is a beta mold so quality is B.
and i have an uncircumcised shifter surround......also you can see i left that face of it in cf and the rest in gel coat and cf, next time around the gel coat will be much darker God willing and it will be perfect.... Also the line on the right is not a seam, the seam is on the left but not visible. Thats what happens when you are doing a lay up and a string of it falls into the mold and you dont see it until you pull the mold. Ill sell them for 159 now....ill take four orders before sunday and when i get back they will be 179. Also the shifter surround i will sell for 29, but it is a beta mold so quality is B.
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lol seriously.....i have one in my car and keep all kinds of crap in the idiot area....i dont think there is really even need for adhesive...just throw it on and pull it off as you like...whatever floats the boat.....S-AFC would look nice 
