Removing luggage rack

[Tracy C.]

Re: Removing luggage rack

Chuckdude..you make me smile

Agree that if your approach is to taper grind and glass up the hole, it's best to leave it as small as possible. I wouldn't rip up the dry glass though. Random fiber mat already has this accomplished for you and it lays down nice and compact in the laminate to opimize the fiber to resin ratio.

However comma

I think your statement...

"Once you return the laminated material to contour on BOTH sides, and used the same material (polyester resin and fiberglass mat) as the original panel, you have brought it back as close to a whole, homogenous panel as it's ever going to get. "

Isn't completely accurate..

My method is better because I use OEM glass with precisely the same fiber/resin ratio as the rest of the deck..

tc

[Chuck S.]

Re: Removing luggage rack

"...My method is better because I use OEM glass with precisely the same fiber/resin ratio as the rest of the deck..."

Heh, heh...I suppose you can't be too careful...the government/EPA could be sucking all the essential volatiles out of today's polyester resin. Pretty soon, you may not be able to even get a good high repairing fiberglass.

Fiber/resin ratio!!??...Come'on now, gimme a break; Don't be tryin' to techno-babble me...I'm the original techno-babbler! Didn't you read JohnH's story about how they made the original panels?...Dude, they poured the resin into the hot mold on top of glass mat using precision graduated COFFEE CANS!!! LOL

[Tracy C.]

Re: Removing luggage rack

I love this..two guys debating a method for doing something that neither has acually had to do....

Hey wait a minute, I've got a call..

Yea hey cousin Vinny, thanks for returning my call.. Yea the families great.

Hey Vinny, what do you charge to break a somebody's typing finger?

10 Bucks...is that all?

Ok your check is in the mail. see ya later.

Hey Chuckdude, I gotta go write a check. You should be getting a vistor pretty soon...

tc

[Chuck S.]

Re: Removing luggage rack

"...I love this..two guys debating a method for doing something that neither has acually had to do..."

Well, like repairing fiberglass, yer haf' right. Actually, I might've done it before (I have a C3)...Might've been curing almost ten years now; I can't say if it would hold up fer ever or not.

[Harmon C.]

Re: Removing luggage rack

Eric

Tear the mat till all you have is strands. You want no mat with cut edges this puts strands in the patch without edges. Also buy a roller for glass repair and roll the patch with acetone on the roller to remove bubles. The main thing is no mat with sharp edges giving a crack a place to start. Put it on the hole with a layer of glass and a layer of mat strands then repeat. I would taper the hole from the top till the hole has a sharp edge on the bottom. In areas where you fix the back grind it out sligtly and fill by the same method but work from the top first. I put the lips back on the front fenders of a shark that had a daytona grill with this method and they never showed. I have filled the deck holes in two sharks with no problems and I still own both of them.

Lyle