Epoxy the refer - how too

Well, went to Fiberlay and talked to Kevin and he is the man. Speak to no one else there or you will be disappointed.

 Any way Kevin told me how to make a fiber glass sheet.

 Using a piece of Plexiglas you wax it with some car wax or other wax. Then using the epoxy and fiber glass cloth make the sheet on top of the Plexiglas. Then take the cloth he gave me and lay it over the fiber glass.  Squeegee it out with a rubber squeegee like shown below and let it dry. The cloth will come off and the fiber glass will come off the Plexiglas. There you have it!

 Kevin also said if we had epoxied the foam first the resin filler would have not reacted with the foam. Oh well.

 So I got some “bobbles” which are used as filler to make a paste to be used for the corners and making radios.  

 So first we sand everything in the refer down with #80 grit.

 Then measure all the flat areas and make fiber glass pieces for them.

 Then fiber glass in each piece using the epoxy.

Then put in the epoxy filler made with the bobbles into all the corners and edges to make them radiouses. 

You put it into a Ziploc bag and squeeze it into a corner of the bag. Then get all the air out of the bag and cut the corner off the bag. Now it can be squeezed into the corners and squeegeed to perfection.

Now using fiber glass tape you fold it in half and place it into the edges and then wet it out with epoxy.

Now you use some heavier fiber glass cloth and put another layer on the bottom.

You can use the lighter cloth on the side s for a second layer after the tape has been installed.

Using push pins if needed to hold the cloth in lace.

So let’s see how this all works out :)