quote:Originally posted by shortyz: i always seem to have trouble with the stretching the fabric over it. I always get wrinkles and those wrinkles are a pain in the but when it comes to sanding.
The key to wrinkle free fabric is knowing the limits of the fabric, and the difficulty that you are building into your design.
When you are attaching your fabric remember that it has limits, but like most limits these can be stretched. All fabric has a bias, a line diagonal to the grain of a fabric; especially : a line at a 45° angle to the selvage often utilized in the cutting of garments for smoother fit.
Find the bias, pull on the fabric and locate the direction which stretches the easiest, this is it. Lay your fabric over your frame in a manner that aligns the bias with the most difficult to cover features, this will allow the attachment of the fabric with the greatest of ease.
If you still get wrinkles after you've done everything that you can to keep them out of your work, just fill them with Bondo, and reshape the entire area.
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acetone to clean the rollers and anything else that needs cleaning right?
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what kind of glass did you use, or did you use any? Didnt see any mat. When you say "additional layers of fiberglass" do you mean layers of resin or actual mat? Thanks bro. Props on the quick job.
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quote:Originally posted by Soundrew: what kind of glass did you use, or did you use any? Didnt see any mat. When you say "additional layers of fiberglass" do you mean layers of resin or actual mat? Thanks bro. Props on the quick job.
Fiberglass Cloth, not mat.
The cloth is used simply because you want the layers to be as smooth as possible, and as strong as possible, cloth is the best way to do this.
quote:Originally posted by Beholder69: I was just wondering what types of fiberglass "matte" there is to use?. A complete list would be nice and what is used more than others..
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very nice illistration mike , and very clean work sir.
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Finally, well here is my little bitty console i put together.
this is in a famous f-150 lightning... i wish i could tell you but i am sure someone from the cleveland area that is into sports knows... my only hint
we did the doors with quart q's 6 1/2's and the kicks with 5 1/4" q's. the pain was trying to line it up so the doors and kicks are on the same angle and there is some imaging with the kicks.
the inserts are all that fake carbon fiber look to match the dash bezel and the gauge cluster.
also the lightning logos glow neo blue when the door is open or the dome light is on. looks tight at night.
further the center console was designed by way of chance. you see there was a fine looking babe that came in and i was really infatuated with her ... and had it on my mind the rest of the day, thats how i came up with the shape of the console. also the pg logos light up blue too.
it's a 40/20/40 seat up front and is a regular cab. i put 4 10" xmax behind the seat. once it was all finished and detailed there was no visible flaws. when i get the rest of the film developed i will post the bed which has 4 phoenix zx600ti amps, a powercore and 2 batteries
the wall in back of the lightning, was going to do it in 1 piece like my last 2 but in case i needed access to the xovers or pg tidd10.
also the hoopta w/3 15" subs jl15w6, there is an orion hcca250 under the black one. sorry i chopped off the screen but you can see some of it on the trunk lid
here's the one that everyone critizes. as you can see it has 3 layers and 2 that motorize up. the 2 humps on the middle layer are the rear speaker pods. also in the middle layer you can see the 15.1 inch monitor flanked by jl xr seperates. you can also see the x overs on the 3rd level next to the phoenix powercore.
the vehicle to the right is the customers other ride with 4 jl 12" w3's and some phoenix amps. along with the digital gauges
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