big fiberglass repair
 

here is my latest poject at work

this planes engine quit and the guy landed in the grass on an interstate highway. the ground was soft and the landing gear broke. then to top it off this part was severly damaged in shipping to us for repair.

we have the rest of the plane but this is the only part that is finished right now

i dont have any before pics but the pics start with cutting things open to really see the damage and then the repair process.

the small perfectly round holes were cut for acess with a borescope to look for internal damage. this part did have one of the wooden ribs broken loose. the bigger square hole was cut to have access to make the repair

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Re: big fiberglass repair
 

Wow that is great work. You are a ricers dream. You can fix your own Vader4000 battler bumper if you hit a curb.

Re: big fiberglass repair
 

damn good work..one of my favorite things to do during summer is mess with fiberglassing.... thinking about making a 4 person hot tub this spring :y

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Re: big fiberglass repair
 

you wouldnt believe some of the ricey requests i get when people find out what i do. i advertise my side business on a few car forums and when people find out my day job the requests start flowing

Re: big fiberglass repair
 

Fiberglass doors gets real racers and the demand is there since I heard MB products just does local work in so cal now

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i could make doors if i had enough interest. is that what you are getting at? i could do an empty shell pretty easily. then you just cut holes for hinges and latches. i dont have the time to do bolt on doors

Re: big fiberglass repair
 

damn thats nice...so do you only paint the repaired spots afterwards or do you do the whole thing?

Re: big fiberglass repair
 

Not for me I already have my fiberglass doors but things such has doors,1 piece front ends and rear hatches are for the friends of speed not body kit homo's so you will deal with mostly cool people

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Yeah doors, rear hatchs etc. would be nice.

I would assume it wouldnt cost much to make either

Nice work by the way :D

Re: big fiberglass repair
 

Very impressive. I would think that it'd be difficult to graft in the fiberglass cloth without it showing through after a while.