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Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 2:23 pm
by widowmaker
Gary57 wrote:ja he is a bit steep. working with cf cant be much different to working with fibre glass. i hear there are special primers u need to use. but come on i can work with fibre glass very well so then surely i can give cf a bash. where can i buy the stuff needed to try it??
its a bit of a mission though - especially with cf not being painted over - it is VERY unforgiving, so i can understand why those other guys had to redo it 4 times. You only see what a stuffup something is after it comes out of the mould - so two days will be wasted and a bonnet's worth of cf is a loooot of loot. Being a mat - the fibres may bend and you want the lines to be straight, not wobbly - which is very hard to do in the time before the resin hardens - if youre only halfway, you chuck out the job, curse, scream, then calmly start over with a big smile on your face

Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 2:57 pm
by Gary57
That was my only concern with doing the center consol in CF. I am F***ing fussy and I would have to have all those little fibres in straight lines or it would drive me mad.