fulltimin
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Well, looks like I'll have to be off to the drug den for adult males again. Fortunately, Harbor Freight isn't too far away.
I added another piece of fiberglass to the inside corner yesterday and was planning on adding several more, before realizing I was out of the little brushes I use for small amounts of the fiberglass resin.
I did try using a small foam brush with really bad results. Turns out that the foam absorbs a lot of resin and then expands fairly quickly, making the foam brush worthless for this application.
For small areas, those little acid brushes work very well, are cheap, and do not absorb much resin.
Should have some pics tonight.
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fulltimin
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Made it to the "drug den" today. Lol.
![[image]](https://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/brushes.jpg)
I should be good to go for a while now.
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fulltimin
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According to the directions on the fiberglass resin container, weighing small amounts of resin, lets you know how much hardener to add.
This amounts to 1 oz, and the correct mixture of hardener, which is in a small plastic tube, is to add 10 drops, and mix well.
![[image]](https://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/weighingfiberglass.jpg)
That allows for several minutes to work the mixture into the cloth, before it starts to harden and is no longer workable.
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fulltimin
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This is what happens when you either mix too much resin, or don't get it used up in time.
![[image]](https://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/hardenedresin.jpg)
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fulltimin
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I added a couple more layers of glass cloth and resin on the inside over top of the pilot's seat area.
![[image]](https://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/fiberglassoverpilotchair.jpg)
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fulltimin
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Moving on to the outside of that area, I started by adding one layer. A little of this has an air bubble that will be sanded off before adding more layers.
Now that the first layer is in place, I can add several more at once to speed things along.
![[image]](https://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/outsideoverpilotchair.jpg)
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fulltimin
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While it may not look like it, I added several layers of fiberglass this evening.
Since this area if not fully flat, I figured I would try a couple of things.
First, I mixed up a 1 oz of fiberglass and put down a couple of layers of fiberglass cloth. Then, I mixed up 2 ox of fiberglass resin and proceeded to spread that onto fiberglass cloth.
Turns out that with a 1" wide brush, I can spread about 2 oz of resin before it starts to harden.
As such, I put down a couple of layers of cloth in an effort to try and level the surface out a little bit.
So far so good.
![[image]](https://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/pilotsfiberglass.jpg)
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In case you didnt get the email. Harbor Freight is having a huge clearance sale this weekend. So huge, that I am going this afternoon.
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fulltimin
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ro_sie wrote:In case you didnt get the email. Harbor Freight is having a huge clearance sale this weekend. So huge, that I am going this afternoon.
Yes, I did see that, thank you.
Hope you had a good trip and spent a bundle! Lol...
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fulltimin
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I finally added a bunch of extra layers of fiberglass cloth and resin on the drivers side.
It is finally getting to the point where it's flattening out, instead of being dished in the center.
![[image]](https://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/pilotfiberglass3.jpg)
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