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[Oldiebut goodie]

I had a hull that was crazed badly - I painted it with two pack polyurethane and it was still as painted when I sold it 20 years later. That boat had a far harder life than any high top will have. There is no need to repeat it if you do it correctly to start with. One of the problems with boat hulls is osmosis - there was no sign of it on sale and I sold it to a marine surveyor. If it passed his dampness checks there is not a lot you can say against it. It does fix the problem!

[Plasticman]

then we'll have to agree to differ
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[johnnyvespa]

well i dont know what to do now i am confooosed to say the least , thanks to metalmick8y and all of you
for your help , i will have to get some one hoo knows how to do it as it is beyound me . would have liked
to do it my self but i will make a pigs ars of it , so if eny one fances the job and lives in essex let me know . thank to you all john .

[johnnyvespa]

some one just said to me underseal it and paint . what do you think , will it work

[Plasticman]

Ask them to paint the roof of their car with underseal and paint it, should look ok so they say>>> then you have a look..
can you bung up a picky of the worst bit/s.
as posted earlier, fill it and prime and paint, may suffice for what you want to achieve as opposed to a permanent fix which is much more laborious. worth a try first
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[jamesc76]

some one just said to me underseal it and paint . what do you think , will it work

they might have ment rub it down prime it and paint it NOT underseal lol

[johnnyvespa]

i wont underseal it as i wont be happy with it , i want it to look good ,

[xriss]

this might be of help its pretty much considered the defacto in fglass resto http://www.amazon.com/Restore-Fiberglas ... 0850455561" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Plasticman]

and remember you only need to get the ISDN number out of the book and your local library will get a copy in for you
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[xriss]

have a mint copy here they do fetch rather alot

[johnnyvespa]

thanks chaps but i have got some one to have a look for me so if not to dear i will get him to do it for me .
as i said i will make a pigs ars of it and not be happy . thanks for your help and time .john .

[Plasticman]

have a mint copy here they do fetch rather alot

be some big library fines then
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[zed]

Ah right the crazing,I used to do a lot of fibreglass work in the 70's cant anymore as its in my skin and I come out in a rash when I go near it that said I do like it as a medium,
A lot of vehicles in the 50's onwards were made with grp bodies and composites of ally and glass.steel and glass and wood and glass to name a few,anyhows back to the prob in hand, when we got a vehicle in with the usual 'star' crazing, we would identify them all and run a DA over them first then I would use an engraver to erode away the flaky type material till I got back to a glass that was stillk relatively bonded and solid, this was repeated on all stars and any other surface cracks and such
next a thin coat of resin applied and overlaid with surface tissue, this was coerced into the depresions I had made, left to dry and a few days later sanded over, and left a week or more to cure, then prepped and painted in the usual way,
I will try dig some pickies out but they are 35mm so will copy and upload when I get time (need to do it anyway)
below is a picky of a Jensen 541, I bought this in the mid 70's as a mere 20 something

I will find the picks of the state it was in, any how the bonnet was the whole front and had been up and over on the A1 so I made it cosmetically correct, took a mould and produced the new bonnet/front, all the body was grp save the sills,door skins and lower front 1/4 panals, the grp was 5-6mm thick, this acr I remade the entire front from screen fwd and sills, this picky was taken recently and mailed to me by new owner, it lasted 30 yrs...

Stunning motor