How To: Fiberglass Fabrication..... Simple to Difficult

[homeslicej2]

Wow Toby. If we lived closer to one another, I'd pester you everyday until you hired me on. Great write up and great job as well.

[Broadfield]

Wow Toby. If we lived closer to one another, I'd pester you everyday until you hired me on. Great write up and great job as well.

Maybe you should move!?!

Actually, maybe I should move down there..... warmer weather.

[homeslicej2]

maybe you should move!?!

Actually, you never really know where life will take you. If we ever head that way, I'll pester you

Actually, maybe I should move down there..... warmer weather.

There you go! Yeah, if you move down towards me, I'll beg and grovel. I like and enjoy my current job, but I definitely have more of a passion for car/home A/V

[RFcool]

Toby great job on the setup it looks sick bro. When i get a nice enough car to have a good system in it, ITS all you. screw benchmark here in town. Fellow NICO man deserves my business and its damn good work at that.

[Broadfield]

Thanks man..... I appreciate it!

Toby

[sebazztard]

beautiful work. you really are a legend here. i cant help but click your threads, i know quailty will be here and i will learn something valuable. thanks for sharing.

[GranTurismoDriver]

Wow...Your work is absolutely amazing. I need to start practicing that and maybe I can be that good in about 5 years...lol

[Broadfield]

beautiful work. you really are a legend here. i cant help but click your threads, i know quailty will be here and i will learn something valuable. thanks for sharing.

Wow...Your work is absolutely amazing. I need to start practicing that and maybe I can be that good in about 5 years...lol

Thanks guys...... I appreciate it!

[lilaznshaggy09]

that was a beautiful setup, looking for a setup for my 7th gen max....

[Broadfield]

Too bad you're not a little closer..... you could bring that badboy up here and we could go to town on it.

[lilaznshaggy09]

MAN I WOULD LOVE TO...YOU SHOULD MOVE DOWN...HAHA....there is this show in June, you should come down, called scrapin the coast....go to http://www.scrapinthecoast.com

[stevensti]

Where can we get the Spray bondo from? do you have web site? Can you post the information?

Thanks in advance.

[Broadfield]

It's Nason 421-40 Ful-Fil HS (Polyester Spray Filler). It's made by Dupont. I get it from a local auto body supply company.

Here is a technical manual on it if you want to read up a little,

http://www.klinesauto.com/PDFs...S.pdf

[stevensti]

Thank you,how thick does this product get after 3 or 4 coats? and how hard?

Very Nice work by the way.

[Broadfield]

You can get it pretty thick.... really depends on how heavy your coats are. The stuff gets absolutely rock hard..... it's great.

Toby

[kokujo17]

Would you go about this the same way with interior parts like the dash or other interior parts?? Cuz I would really like to start doing some of the ideas I have to do my interior.
Modified by kokujo17 at 7:10 AM 6/1/2009

[Broadfield]

What exactly are you trying to do with the interior?

[kokujo17]

Well i would like to fiberglass all the interior and then theirs going to be some molded frosted plexiglass or plastic and some neons also .
Modified by kokujo17 at 9:17 PM 6/1/2009

[1KleenS13]

Nice work. Im still working on my enclosure for my coupe. I have about 2 layers of fleece on it. Will this be strong enough to produce a good sound, I just dont want it to deflect too much and cause the bondo to pop.

[Broadfield]

So are you using fleece to build up thickness? You should only have one layer of fleece for the stretch. The rest will be fiberglass mat. Depending on how big the enclosure is and how large the distance of the stretch is, will dictate how many layers of mat you need. You want to be able to take your thumb and push as hard as you possibly can with all your weight and not be able to flex any part of the enclosure at all. I usually need to do at least 4 layers of mat. More on bigger areas.

Toby

[1KleenS13]

Yeah I was trying to build thickness. I also put a layer of glass(fabric) over the fleece. I put my foot on it (180lbs) and I didnt hear any craking sounds. Sould I add some glass to the inside as well? I work on the thing every once in a while so i'm not in a big rush to finish it. Also thanks for the info on the spray bondo. Do you use any type of roller to compress the mat? Thanks