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[alerocity]

could someone post a how to on doing fiber glass
i'm thinking about doing my dash

[mobs241]

doing fiberglass what?
if your talking about something custom, i wouldnt do it on your car if youve never worked with fiberglass before.. fiberglass is not easy to work with if youve never done it before, some can be masters with it, some suck at it... try 'glassing something small first and just practice.

[kwhauck]

Originally posted by mobs241@Oct 10 2004, 01:24 PM
doing fiberglass what?
if your talking about something custom, i wouldnt do it on your car if youve never worked with fiberglass before.. fiberglass is not easy to work with if youve never done it before, some can be masters with it, some suck at it... try 'glassing something small first and just practice.
yep and get parts from the junk yar dto practice on, don't practice on your stuff...

[bdyman]

well if your talkin about making f/b pieces like in replacin the interior with a fiberglass mold have fun!! f/b is hard to work with the mattin is a pain in the ass
one thing i can tell ya is tempurature is key to doin f/b, when you mix the resin with the hardner that also is crutial to f/b
practice practice practice!!!!!
or start with a piece of wood and just get the hang of the matting with the resin on it
go to a local body shop supplier and buy the mattin and resin

[smokinAMD]

Fiberglass is really fun once you start sanding on it. You get all itchy and scratchy.

[AftermathAlero]

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/richwong@sbc...album?.dir=20b2 (http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/richwong@sbcglobal.net/album?.dir=20b2)

heres my pics of when i did my fiberglassing of the dash and rear doors. I still need to go do the front doors tonight.

Heres some pics of a gauge pod I molded for my friends's CRV .. he got a free gauge pod off an F150. Only took me a few hours to mold the F150 pillar to his stock one. Spent last night from 8pm to 1am.

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/richwong@sbc...253as,1%253af,0 (http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/richwong@sbcglobal.net/album?.dir=f969&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.done=http%3a//pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/richwong@sbcglobal.net/my_photos%3furlhint=actn,del%253as,1%253af,0)

Fiberglassing is easy.. its sanding that is the time consuming part. Bodyfiller is also easy but you need to keep applying until you get the shape and have no low spots. The fun part is primering and blocking it until all the deep bondo scratches are out of the item. when i did my dash.. I primered it 4 times and blocked it 5 times with the sanding block with 80 grit sand paper and 150 .. working up. Cuz when you do body filler you need to use 36 grit sand paper which mean you'll have deep scratch marks.


This guy heres how-to fiberglassing stereo stuff has been all over the internet for 2-3 years now.. I went to this site before i did my own fiberglassing ..
http://web.njit.edu/~cas1383/proj/main/

[FormulaNERD]

good tutorial richie... that's what i was looking for in a reply to the original posters question.

[alerocity]

thanks