Re: Come See My Woody! (1979 CB400Ti)
Well I got a lot of work done on the seat today, trouble is now I'm further behind then I was yesterday!
SO! Laying fibreglass is NOT as easy as it looks on that Dime City How To video... at least for me it wasn't. I don't know what happened, but it was a GD clusterf$&# for me out there today. First time I started to pour the resin, mixed it to the proper ratio, put some on the seat and spread it with a brush. Then laid my fibreglass mat on top of that, which I had tried to cut to match the curves. I start brushing pouring and brushing on more resin and it starts gumming up, all the fibreglass is gathering on my brush and pulling off the mould! I'm trying to get it laid quick and fibreglass is all stuck to the brush, my gloves, everything. I finally say I don't want to loose this mild and I just peel the whole thing off and toss it while it's still pliable.
Attempt number too. Cut the mat to strips to make it easier to apply. Mix up the proper ratio, get going and it's going a little smoother, getting a lot of bubbles though and not being able to get the material to lay flat along the sides, by the time I get to the butt bump and curves all hell has broken loose again. Pieces are folding over the curves horrendously, big thick chunks I can't get to wrap around the sides, and never mind trying to get the details in my painstakingly applied tube detailing. Looked like a chunk of untouched amber. Figured I'd let it dry and see what happened, maybe I could salvage it.
After it hardened I went at it with a grinder and quickly realized I was fighting a losing battle. It was just nothing like the original form, way too much work to try to level it all off. Tried to salvage the mould out of it and was only able to retrieve the butt bump in tact. Plus to make things even better the heat of the glass melted the top of my styrofoam base plate, so I had to replace that, refit trim that to the frame, and now I currently have two fresh chunks of foam on the front to redo that bump.
So all in all, quite a crap day! Any advice on what I might have done wrong? Too hot a day, doing it in sunlight bad? Too much wax on the mould maybe?