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Ben Lipman Goo Roo SA Soarer TT manual, plus TT track car
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Thursday, July 14, 2011 - 07:23 pm, by: Ben Lipman(Ben12a)
Progress pics:
We had a 'nice' day here in this freezing wasteland known as South Australia. By nice, I mean the sun was out and the temp got to double figures. Still too bloody cold to make the fibreglass resin go off(hence the heater stuck through the duct), but at least the 'easy sand putty' was going hard. Bloody hard. Another one for the truth in advertising watchdog to investigate. The whole front end is now covered in the stuff.
Working with the easy sand putty is initially difficult, then nice and easy for exactly three minutes, and then rapidly goes pear shaped. I found that often I was making up to much of the stuff (it is two pack, as in two ingredients, not the rapper) so that it was beginning to go hard before I had it on the car. The sections where I was on top of it, the surface is nice and neat. The sections where I was racing against time- well the surface looks like a gay pink volcano erupted all over it. When this stuff goes off, there is no saving it. I have some very interesting sculptures on the floor of the shed, and one mildly amusing putty ball.
I looked at the sky with its beaming sun and optimistically decided I could probably fibreglass the insided of the foam work to the existing plastic bar section. Wrong! I tried using more catalyst and a heater, but time will tell if the 'glass actually has set and will provide some measure of stability to the project.
