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wabco40:
--- Quote from: craigh on July 05, 2017, 07:56:42 PM ---Hi Brad
What brand/type body fillers do you use in your fibglass work. ?
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Hi Craig,
I used Evercoat fibretech for structural and gap filling and finishing work was done with Evercoat VPA (Vette panel adhesive). Both dry very hard (much more then normal body fillers) and you need to start sanding while it's still soft.
GPI group are the Australian distributor for Evercoat. They have the fibretech but don't import the VPA.
I had to import it myself. Being classed as dangerous goods it also cannot be airfreighted.
What work are you doing? If its structural the fibretech can be blocked back to close to finish and then a fine skim of rage to fill any pin holes etc. Most of the final filler gets sanded off anyway.
craigh:
Thanks Brad
I have a couple of small repairs
For the front bumper corner I will lay glass up behind then when dry do the same on the front. Then sand glass back to shape.
Filler will be final steps to get shape correct
As for door area glass behind then do a top layer that will mostly be saved back. Some filler to finish
Thats the plan anyway
wabco40:
That's right, just use polyester resin and matt (not cloth) to reinforce and build up the area and then block back to shape. You should be able to get it very close to finish with the resin and matt and not have to use the filler to get the shape. Then use a light skim of polyester body filler to fill any pin hole and blend in.
The areas are only small corners so there easy to fix. If it was in the middle of a panel then it would be a different story.
wabco40:
I have just signed up with Imageshack to host my pictures. Hopefully I don't have the same issues as with Photobucket :grr:
Not sure how I am going to go updating the pictures from the previous posts.
Heat shields done in black chrome.
metalhead:
That looks awesome!
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