donsrods
Well-known member
Like LordMaximo said, your work can be trashed very quickly if things don't go right when fiberglassing. Here is my little example of that.
When I started to lay up the tunnel in my T some guys on another forum suggested using foam to shape the tunnel and then lay up the glass over that. It was a terrific idea. I bought foam and shaped it with an electric carving knife to exactly the right shape, then laid up wet fiberglass mat over it.
What they FORGOT to tell me was that you have to put some BARRIER over the foam or the resin will eat it up! About 15 minutes into the job the tunnel started to disolve, so I had to make a quick decision to yank out all the wet mat and throw it in the trash can.
Here are three pictures taken during that little fiasco. Picture one is before resin. Picture two is as the tunnel was starting to shrivel up, and three is my trash can.
Don
When I started to lay up the tunnel in my T some guys on another forum suggested using foam to shape the tunnel and then lay up the glass over that. It was a terrific idea. I bought foam and shaped it with an electric carving knife to exactly the right shape, then laid up wet fiberglass mat over it.
What they FORGOT to tell me was that you have to put some BARRIER over the foam or the resin will eat it up! About 15 minutes into the job the tunnel started to disolve, so I had to make a quick decision to yank out all the wet mat and throw it in the trash can.
Here are three pictures taken during that little fiasco. Picture one is before resin. Picture two is as the tunnel was starting to shrivel up, and three is my trash can.
Don