Thread: Project $ 3 K Is Underway

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Better to overengineer than to do it the other way. Sounds like you are gonna have a nice shop there, Take some more pictures for us.


As for me, all weekend I have been doing the fiberglassing on the underside of the floor. Yesterday I flipped it upside down and started grinding away, and about an hour later I remembered I didn't put my paper suit on, and was starting to feel that familiar fiberglass itch. I went home, took two showers with baby oil, a scrub brush, then used duct tape to try to pull some of the fibers out. No luck, so last night I paid the price when I tried to go to sleep.

Today it was pretty well gone, and you can bet I closed myself up in the paper suit, goggles, and a mask. Wasn't going through that again. I thought about the pantyhose trick Bob mentioned one time, but I just didn't feel like going through the check out line at the grocery store with them. Been too many years that I have been single, I guess.

Anyway, I spent the entire day laying glass mat on the underside of the tunnel area and the rest of the floor. Some areas got one layer, and others got two or three, depending on the strength I wanted in that area. It is now as solid as a rock, and tomorrow I can DA the entire bottom and sand it smoother. A little filler in the spots that show (the front of the tunnel shows for about 3 inches ) and then I can flip it back over and finish up the cockpit.

Here are a couple of pictures of the work I got done today. The green stuff you see in the first picture is Tiger Hair filler. I used it to get the front of the tunnel faired in so that it would make a smooth transition, and also fill some low spots. Then I laid mat over the filler.

Don