Dtrasler
Sr Member
Here's Friday, one of my rare days off. The major components of the fence have been delivered, the dog has been to the vet, and I've primed the backs of at least a third of the kitchen cabinet doors. I even snuck in some lunch, and then I went outside into the Autumn sunshine to do some helmet work.
There used to be a UK quizshow catchphrase that went "I've started so I'll finish." and now I've started fiber-glassing the RC bucket, I can't just leave it. This increases the chance of screwing up both helmets, as I try to do twice as much in the short time I don't have. Ah well. In today's case, that meant gluing some matting on the inside of the TIE bucket, then splodging on the resin, followed by adding more matting to the cheek insides of the RC bucket and finishing up the resin on that.
Two things have become clear to me during this process. One, the RC bucket is out of kilter in terms of symmetry, but we all know how much that means to me, right? Two, the Tie Bucket has a lot of gaps in the structure which are not magically filling themselves in. Worse, dribbles of resin are drying in streaks or drops and they're going to have to be filed off/down before I start in on the bondo.
Luckily there'll be at least two more sessions of matting on the TIE bucket before I dare to start bondo madness, and I'm fully expecting the RC bucket to fold up into a messy heap. I'd be sorry about that, because it's very interesting to compare the pep build with my own kluge (currently gathering dust on the wardrobe in my study). (Yes, I have a wardrobe in my study. That's completely normal. Isn't it? Well, where do you keep YOUR ironing board?)
There used to be a UK quizshow catchphrase that went "I've started so I'll finish." and now I've started fiber-glassing the RC bucket, I can't just leave it. This increases the chance of screwing up both helmets, as I try to do twice as much in the short time I don't have. Ah well. In today's case, that meant gluing some matting on the inside of the TIE bucket, then splodging on the resin, followed by adding more matting to the cheek insides of the RC bucket and finishing up the resin on that.
Two things have become clear to me during this process. One, the RC bucket is out of kilter in terms of symmetry, but we all know how much that means to me, right? Two, the Tie Bucket has a lot of gaps in the structure which are not magically filling themselves in. Worse, dribbles of resin are drying in streaks or drops and they're going to have to be filed off/down before I start in on the bondo.
Luckily there'll be at least two more sessions of matting on the TIE bucket before I dare to start bondo madness, and I'm fully expecting the RC bucket to fold up into a messy heap. I'd be sorry about that, because it's very interesting to compare the pep build with my own kluge (currently gathering dust on the wardrobe in my study). (Yes, I have a wardrobe in my study. That's completely normal. Isn't it? Well, where do you keep YOUR ironing board?)