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hey dudes anyone local to welly able to glass my canopy back together ?????

want to do this

hi there is a place in upperhutt called
DJI fiberglass ltd they do all sort of repairs etc
04 528 8848
cheers

forgot to mention CHEAP/FREE/TRADE SERVICES am a ticketed welder including structural

taz01 wrote:
want to do this

maaaaaate are you in luck

I'm sure I've got lots of spare orange paint around here somewhere

go on do it, you know you want to

had an idea that would bring back memory's for ya skid............

its not rocket science taz easy as bogging .if you see the boys at dji in upper hutt they will sell u the resin and hardener a hell of a lot cheaper than the shops .top blokes as well .if you bring your own clean containers they will fill them for u ,you will need a small glass one for the hardener though .an empty 1.25 coke or lemonade bottle will work for the resin .from memory thats were stinkys patrol came from .if you want chop strand mating pretty sure i,ve got a pile in the garage

cheers sig sounds like id better have a crack at doing it myself if nobody else volunteers to do it for me

honestly mate its easy ,just a little bit messy

Sorry for the thread jack Taz.....this has got me thinking of a easier solutions to some of my problems ....Does this place in upperhutt sell the fibreglass mat aswell? If not where do you buy that from? How much approx. is the stuff to buy?

how much do you need

Whats wrong with a roll of duct tape Taz

seriously if you don't paint it orange we will

why ??..........what color do my trucks normally end up being and no never orange its been done....

sig wrote:how much do you need

Who me??? I'm not sure, how much ya got ....happy to pay the price as per usual....i'm good at getting rid of your unwanted bits and pieces

taz01 wrote:cheers sig sounds like id better have a crack at doing it myself if nobody else volunteers to do it for me

Never done it before, but willin to give you a hand, blind leading the blind

Nizsafari wrote:

taz01 wrote:cheers sig sounds like id better have a crack at doing it myself if nobody else volunteers to do it for me

Never done it before, but willin to give you a hand, blind leading the blind

Yeah, Taz, you crank up the bbq, I will come and give it a crack

Bubba wrote:

Nizsafari wrote:

taz01 wrote:cheers sig sounds like id better have a crack at doing it myself if nobody else volunteers to do it for me

Never done it before, but willin to give you a hand, blind leading the blind

Yeah, Taz, you crank up the bbq, I will come and give it a crack

I will man the BBQ

I tried glassing once

turned out shite, so decided to leave it alone after that

Went to DJI today....had to have a go at this .....Bloody top bloke really nice guy. Had ago this arvo and turned out nice so im going to continue to stich the vitara body back together with it over the top of the welds.....bloody paper thin zook metal

Good luck taz....the shit is cheap and its easy enough to do.....buy some of them 90c paint brushes from bunnings....nearly used dads ones......geez would i of had a sore ear

Had the same idea for mine after seeing that truck on outerlimits,then decided to just lose the canopy all together.

Thought you were gonna chop the back off and build a tray?

mroffroader wrote:.....buy some of them 90c paint brushes from bunnings....nearly used dads ones......geez would i of had a sore ear

You can clean up all your gear using laundry power and water. Alot cheaper than the solvents.

tgaguy1 wrote:

mroffroader wrote:.....buy some of them 90c paint brushes from bunnings....nearly used dads ones......geez would i of had a sore ear

You can clean up all your gear using laundry power and water. Alot cheaper than the solvents.

get the cheap brushes, and toss when finished, not worth the effort of saving them, also if doing a larger area get a fibreglass roller, saves loads of time and get a better job, if glassing a vertical or over head surface, do not use chop strand mat, you will end up with one hell of a mess, use a cross woven cloth, dearer but more user friendly, also use latex or rubber surgical gloves, one trick i learned watching the gurus at work is they put on 4 or 5 pairs of gloves at once, and peel them off as they get covered in resin, if doing glassing in strips lay plastic sheet onto a board, lay the matting out and wet out on the flat, pick up the cloth before it turn translucent and apply and work in,


Cheers

Pedro

fearless wrote:Had the same idea for mine after seeing that truck on outerlimits,then decided to just lose the canopy all together.

Thought you were gonna chop the back off and build a tray?

yep chopping excess deck off and replacing with 3mm tread plate to help support the exo cage ........

Isnt Curly pretty good at doing that sort of stuff with all the boat and yatch building hes done in the past?

yup i can do it 4 u but im up in the naki im a composits engineer aka a fiberglasser used to have my own shop makeing motorcycle farings

how the hell did this idea...



turn into this....





i think you took a wrong turn somewhere....

ummmmmmmm got over energetic with the grinder and hey presto ..........am impressed with performance now

taz01 wrote:am impressed with performance now

what was the gain? less weight and no panel damage>

cool__bananas wrote:

taz01 wrote:am impressed with performance now

what was the gain? less weight and no panel damage>

close......... more weight and no panels to dent or hook on