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
> Va. Beach, Va Phone: (757) 495-8229
>
> 48 TR1800 65 Morgan 4/4 Series V
> 71 Saab Sonett III 75 Bricklin SV1 77 Spitfire
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