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Re: Brick, fiberglass work

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Subject: Re: Brick, fiberglass work
From: "Dave Farbacher" <igster@nauticom.net>
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 07:38:11 -0500
John,

I've seen the alligator skin looking stuff on my car.  I don't know whether
this is some sort of undercoating (for what reason I don't know) or whether
this is some sort of gel coat that's coming off.


Dave Farbacher


----- Original Message -----
From: John T. Blair <jblair@exis.net>
To: <Bricklin@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 1999 5:05 PM
Subject: Brick, fiberglass work


> Got a couple of questions:
>
> 1. As I've said, I pulled the seat and trunk pans out of 887.  On the
bottom
>    of the trunk pan around the battery and door compartments has a lot of
>    junk.  Sort-of looks like aligator skin.  I don't know if this is a
>    build up of dirt or if the outer layer of fiberglass (resin) is
breaking
>    down.  I cleaned most of it off with a sander.  Anybody else noticed
>    this, and or know what it is?
>
> 2. I've sanded all the old glue off the fiberglass.  Now this means that I
>    did sand slightly into the fiber glass floor/trunk pans.  I need to do
>    a little fix up work on these anyway.  So I planed to cover the entire
>    top and bottom of the panels with fiberglass resin.  My question is,
>    I plan on using the glue that is used on Corvets, a semi-rigid poly-
>    eurothaine (sp).  Should I know have an exterior coating of resin along
>    the areas where the glue is going?  Does it make any difference?
>
> John
>
>
> John T. Blair  WA4OHZ          email:  jblair@exis.net
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>
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