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

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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

:6

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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

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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

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

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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

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

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looks better than new! nice work. this is something i wish i had the time to learn.

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sometimes we only paint the repair but with this part i painted the whole thing.


i have always wanted to make a once piece front end but i have no use for one. i dont go to the track too often. maybe i will give it a shot and see how it sells. i already have a mail order business so that part would be easy

there are a couple tricks that make it real easy. once you know, its nothing

thanks dude. that means a lot after seeing your work

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Is that off an Extra 300?

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yup

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OMG you work on planes too :o

do u got to test drive the plane after ur done ? :l

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I know some of the Red Bull Air Race pilots, like Nicolas Ivanoff, are flying the new Extra 300SR. Are there any plans to make a full production version or are they just going to keep it to 'one-offs' for VIPs

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im not licensed to get paid to fly, nor do i have enough flight hours to be insurable to be paid to fly. i do taxi the planes around, do full power runups, and seat in brake pads.

i know Mike Goulian. he flies an extra. i also know Patty Wagstaff, hell i was going to ramble off some names and then realized its just way too many. lol

anyway, they were planning to make a production race plane but their race planes are shitty. they just arent fast enough. i have yet to see an extra make it to the finals, or even the semi-finals if i remember correctly. the Extra's flying now are the 2nd attempt at a race plane. the first one made a great aerobatic plane but was slow. this one is faster but still slow.hopfully they will get their ---- together and make something nice. i wish i could talk Mike Goulian to let me make some fairings for his plane. i see lots of areas where i could make it faster. i dont see him enough to badger him about it though.

just figured i would add that we are the only place in this country to get Extras. other people sell them but they get them though us

www.southeastaero.com

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if you ever wanna make a one dpiece front end let me know i have a friend that is going to need a custome front end for his set up with his pro car.

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Did you mean for that to look like a cock and ball set? lol.

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no, that wasnt intentional and cant believe it took this long for someone to say it. lol

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I see smut in everything. :6

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thats mega cool :6 , one day i wish I will be able to say " I have control", pull the throttle control levels, kick some rudders, pull the yoke or may be i will need to dial to 7700 and say "Mayday Mayday Mayday" LOL

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Looks good. Its nice when you have all the tools to complete a job. I see that you vacum bag it, what FAR did you use for that repair. ;)

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You just slap an "EXPERMENTAL" sticker on it and call it good.

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not my worry. im not signing it off. lol. we are a factory service center. after a few big repairs the factory just lets us fix stuff without talking to them first.

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looks real good. nice job at matching paint schemes. A+ 8)

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you should do a how-to-fiberglass write-up. obviously you do damn good work and most of us wouldn't mind learning.

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i guess i could, i havent seen many people trying or asking about it so i never thought about it. any ideas on what to make for the write-up? i really dont need to make anything for myself right now but if there is something that a lot of people want i could do it

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awkward suggestion maybe, but fiberglass del sol tops might sell like hotcakes, because any other aftermarket lighter replacement I've seen is $$$$$

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hmmm......... i could do a top, but i dont know anyone with a del sol. anyone live in FL with one?