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fester Regular Location: Gympie Qld Registered: December 2004	Re: where to get Cro-Mo pipe + Carbon and use of carbon Sun, 20 March 2005 11:01 Interesting Sam. Another way to get the parcel tray right is to mix resin and talcum powder (cheap baby powder)into a light filler and apply that where needed to fill some of the voids. I have a client who builds boats and I have seen him use this. You could try and take a mould off the tray as it (with some sort of release method) if you want to save it and then work on tidying up that mould before using or taking another mould again but that would be much more work, time and materials but the only way if you want to retain the original tray in timber finish. Also if you don't want to use a gel coat for a coloured look you can add a small amount of gel coat to your resin mix if you don't want the basic glass coloured look. As for making moulds he gets his plugs very smooth and then waxes them before taking the mould off it. This is used for the boat parts to get a perfectly smooth finish. They also wax the mould instead of using a release agent as it's smoother. I once moulded a motorbike rear mudguard off a Suzuki RGV250 by sanding it super smooth inside and moulding off that. It was good but with the release agent not totally perfect. Probably even more important when you use gel coat. If you wanted some good how too's on moulding and glassing you should try and get ahold of some old issues of Performance Cars I think it was they did a series of articles from basic fibreglassing to proper mould making with special mould stuff rather than just glass. your idea of a timber frame to teh mould is spot on. The boat guys mould it around a steel frame as they are going to use it hundreds of times. For your bonnet shape and strength why not take a mould of both sides and then join them together with a sandwich layer of whichever foam style product you choose. The ribs on the underside would add heaps of tortional strength as well and of course it would look correct also. you probably also want to resin in a steel or alloy plate where your brackets, hinges etc go to spread the load better and give more strength in those sections. Cut away the foam there and add alloy plate of same thickness or something. Again the boat guys sandwich in ply sheets. I assume you also already know you cannot have any inverse curves or corners etc in a one piece mould or you will have bucklies getting the panel out without damaging one or the other. That's when you ahevt o start getting involved with 2 piece bolt together moulds. Gavin [Report message to a moderator]

	Subject	Poster	Date
	where to get Cro-Mo pipe + Carbon and use of carbon	Sam_Q	Thu, 10 March 2005 14:04
	Re: Where to buy: Cro-Mo pipe + Carbon	stevenvandecauter	Thu, 10 March 2005 14:09
	Re: Where to buy: Cro-Mo pipe + Carbon	Sam_Q	Thu, 10 March 2005 14:18
	Re: Where to buy: Cro-Mo pipe + Carbon	gold28	Fri, 11 March 2005 00:12
	Re: Where to buy: Cro-Mo pipe + Carbon	oldcorollas	Fri, 11 March 2005 00:23
	Re: Where to buy: Cro-Mo pipe + Carbon	gianttomato	Fri, 11 March 2005 09:28
	Re: Where to buy: Cro-Mo pipe + Carbon	slydar	Sat, 12 March 2005 01:36
	Re: Where to buy: Cro-Mo pipe + Carbon	draven	Sat, 12 March 2005 03:53
	Re: Where to buy: Cro-Mo pipe + Carbon	slydar	Sat, 12 March 2005 04:02
	Re: Where to buy: Cro-Mo pipe + Carbon	draven	Sat, 12 March 2005 04:05
	Re: Where to buy: Cro-Mo pipe + Carbon	slydar	Sat, 12 March 2005 04:09
	Re: Where to buy: Cro-Mo pipe + Carbon	draven	Sat, 12 March 2005 04:13
	Re: Where to buy: Cro-Mo pipe + Carbon	Sam_Q	Sun, 13 March 2005 21:22
	Re: Where to buy: Cro-Mo pipe + Carbon	gold28	Sun, 13 March 2005 23:27
	Re: Where to buy: Cro-Mo pipe + Carbon	Sam_Q	Sun, 13 March 2005 23:49
	Re: Where to buy: Cro-Mo pipe + Carbon	gold28	Mon, 14 March 2005 00:03
	Re: Where to buy: Cro-Mo pipe + Carbon	oldcorollas	Mon, 14 March 2005 00:26
	Re: Where to buy: Cro-Mo pipe + Carbon	gold28	Mon, 14 March 2005 01:55
	Re: Where to buy: Cro-Mo pipe + Carbon	oldcorollas	Mon, 14 March 2005 02:41
	Re: Where to buy: Cro-Mo pipe + Carbon	Bazooka	Mon, 14 March 2005 08:13
	Re: Where to buy: Cro-Mo pipe + Carbon	Sam_Q	Mon, 14 March 2005 13:55
	Re: Where to buy: Cro-Mo pipe + Carbon	gold28	Mon, 14 March 2005 20:33
	Re: Where to buy: Cro-Mo pipe + Carbon	Bazooka	Tue, 15 March 2005 03:06
	Re: Where to buy: Cro-Mo pipe + Carbon	gold28	Tue, 15 March 2005 03:33
	Re: Where to buy: Cro-Mo pipe + Carbon	Sam_Q	Tue, 15 March 2005 10:13
	Re: Where to buy: Cro-Mo pipe + Carbon	gold28	Tue, 15 March 2005 20:40
	Re: Where to buy: Cro-Mo pipe + Carbon	leigh	Wed, 16 March 2005 01:41
	Re: Where to buy: Cro-Mo pipe + Carbon	Sam_Q	Wed, 16 March 2005 11:46
	Re: where to get Cro-Mo pipe + Carbon and use of carbon	gold28	Wed, 16 March 2005 22:07
	Re: where to get Cro-Mo pipe + Carbon and use of carbon	Sam_Q	Fri, 18 March 2005 13:23
	Re: where to get Cro-Mo pipe + Carbon and use of carbon	MFX_Neko_86	Fri, 18 March 2005 14:25
	Re: where to get Cro-Mo pipe + Carbon and use of carbon	Sam_Q	Fri, 18 March 2005 21:40
	Re: where to get Cro-Mo pipe + Carbon and use of carbon	Sam_Q	Fri, 18 March 2005 21:55
	Re: where to get Cro-Mo pipe + Carbon and use of carbon	Sam_Q	Fri, 18 March 2005 22:12
	Re: where to get Cro-Mo pipe + Carbon and use of carbon	MFX_Neko_86	Sun, 20 March 2005 07:11
	Re: where to get Cro-Mo pipe + Carbon and use of carbon	fester	Sun, 20 March 2005 11:01
	Re: where to get Cro-Mo pipe + Carbon and use of carbon	MFX_Neko_86	Sun, 20 March 2005 12:15
	Re: where to get Cro-Mo pipe + Carbon and use of carbon	gold28	Mon, 21 March 2005 00:02
	Re: where to get Cro-Mo pipe + Carbon and use of carbon	MFX_Neko_86	Wed, 23 March 2005 04:21
	Re: where to get Cro-Mo pipe + Carbon and use of carbon	Sam_Q	Wed, 23 March 2005 06:59
	Re: where to get Cro-Mo pipe + Carbon and use of carbon	gold28	Thu, 24 March 2005 00:21
	Re: where to get Cro-Mo pipe + Carbon and use of carbon	MFX_Neko_86	Thu, 24 March 2005 11:42

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