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Hanaldo	Hanaldo posted 10 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 2.5K, Visits: 28K	Yeh it takes a bit of getting used to when you normally work with carbon. It's strange for a twill to be stiff as a board and have absolutely 0 drape, and if you do pull any fibres then you end up with see-through patches, so it's tricky. Even the radiator duct and inner guards had a good degree of drape to them, and were much harder than they would have been with carbon. Brian, sorry for the late reply, I missed your post. The binnacle definitely isn't one piece, it's actually 24 pieces.
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MarkMK	MarkMK posted 10 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 338, Visits: 2K	Great work! I know what you mean regarding the alufibre...I recently did some fairly straightforward panels using it and getting an even-looking finish is very hard to achieve, but looks like you've done brilliantly on such a curvaceous part. ..
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Brian2fast	Brian2fast posted 10 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 79, Visits: 1.3K	Amazing dashboard. Very cool. Impressed how sharp you got the alufiber into the corners. Was that done with one piece of material?
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FLD	FLD posted 10 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 468, Visits: 2.7K	Lovely! It's always controversial posting up pics like this as I find old-skoolers abuse you for not using oem steel. I did a wilys coupe some years ago and received quite some 'feedback'. Personally I love it
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Hanaldo	Hanaldo posted 10 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 2.5K, Visits: 28K	Thanks guys. Scott, the mini is owned by our resident mini-collector haha. He has 14 of them, all different models. This one is his track car, was in getting a tubular front-end welded up. It's a serious piece of machinery that thing! Might only have a 1.6L Honda motor in it but I'd wager it would beat our 600hp Lotus around the track!
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fgayford	fgayford posted 10 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 433, Visits: 1.2K	Outstanding work!! Fred
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scottracing	scottracing posted 10 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 460, Visits: 5.2K	awesome work again! whats going on with the yellow mini in the second photo? the radiator shouldnt be there!! im intrigued
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*VVS*	*VVS* posted 10 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Moderators Posts: 226, Visits: 334	Nice work!
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Hanaldo	Hanaldo posted 10 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 2.5K, Visits: 28K	Yeah regular process, layer of 225g csm over the foam and then body filler from there.
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*VVS*	*VVS* posted 10 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Moderators Posts: 226, Visits: 334	Ok, have you used car body filler over that or a special/ dedicated product.
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