Re: Anyone have any experience with heavy body work?

[chris gonzalez <chris24g@yahoo.com>]

I have never heard of laying up vinyl mesh or polyurethane mesh. It
doesn't seem like it would work, since they are plastics and so is the
resin that you would be using. Is there any info online I could check
out?

If you pour the vinyl mold the resulting piece will be extremely heavy.
To get a polyuretheane piece similar to Zender, you would have to use
injection molds, which is prohibitive in cost. 

IMO your best bet would be to create fiberglass molds and then lay up
the piece in carbon fiber or kevlar. Fiberglass is only "unhealthy" if
you totally disregard basic safety precautions, like a mask and
coveralls. 

fwiw,
chrisg
'82 8v
'88 16v

--- "L. M. Lloyd" <ubik@austin.rr.com> wrote:
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> I have decided to design my own dash, and recast Seidl my body kit
> out of either heavy vinyl or polyurethane so that it will be more
> damage resistant than the stock fiberglass. Both of these, of course,
> require making custom molds. I dislike the idea of working with
> actual glass fibers (health reasons) if I can help it, so I was
> wondering if anyone had a good source for either polyurethane or
> vinyl mesh to use in the place of the glass mesh. I know it can be
> done this way, and I already have a source for the casting materials,
> I just don't know where to get the mesh, and thought that someone on
> the list might have done a lot of body work and had some idea where
> to start looking.
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> Thanks a lot.
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> The goal is to overcome the deliberate nature of the process. 
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