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Nice work. Your filleting work looks clean. Radius looks big, 1/4"? I am anxious to see how the gelcoat is gonna turn out. That is the one step I never tried.
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03-04-2012, 06:35 PM
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Ridge, actually i made the radius even tighter after the picture was taken, it looked to be a bit to wide . i ran out of resin and got bored so i popped one of the side pieces of the mold off, it came rite off i couldnt believe it
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03-04-2012, 08:44 PM
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So I am very intrigued about making molds,and this gives me motivation to try making a couple hatches. So let me try to understand, you build a jig or mold then round off inside corners with molding clay then spray with a release wax. You then roll out gel coat and then make your glass layup? Not trying to hijack thread please pm with details.
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03-07-2012, 09:16 PM
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hatch
So i finished the build of my Hatch today. now here i am like a kid at christmas time , cant wait to get this thing out of the mold so i'm now working with the mold removal wedge and nothing and i mean nothing is happening at all. After about an hour i get the Hatch out , only problem is 90 percent of the MDF is still conected to it and i thought i used enough mold release but that spray wax the guy sold me must not have worked. Now here i am taking the MDF down layer by layer 1/32 nd of an inch at a time with my Dewalt power planer. Just wanted to shoot my self. so after three hours of the Planer the palm sander and 4 different wood chisels i got it down to the gelcoat but not without a little bit of damage. i did expect that it would need some work but not the 2 gouges i put in it! The point of the story is hand rub the wax into the mold. other than that the hatch came out fantastic could not be more pleased
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03-08-2012, 04:17 PM
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Congratulations
Post up a picture of that bad boy. Good talking with you too BTW.
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03-08-2012, 07:54 PM
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you can use hair spray as a release agent
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03-09-2012, 08:37 AM
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Spare, i did not know that one , I'll keep it in mind thanks. But next time i will be using Formica for my mold material so that wont happen again. I just finished gelcoating the hatch this morning and it looks good ! I us a textured roller that is made for applying contact cement,it has a slight stipple to it and lays down a very nice pattern. Ridge i really enjoyed our conversation yesterday as well, thanks again. I will post pics of the finished hatch this weekend.
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