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Lee34	L Lee34 posted 6 Years Ago Topic Details
L Group: Forum Members Posts: 2, Visits: 34	Hello guys my name is lee. I'm a welder fabricator and composites is a hobby. I've made a few Fibreglass items with success thanks to the easy composites video tutorials. Anyway I'm looking to make some Fibreglass fairings for my motorbike for track use and want some advise for making the molds. Obviously I'll use the original fairings as the plug but How should I go about filling the openings where the headlights and tail lights go without modifying original fairing? I want to be able to reuse them. thanks in advance
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Fasta	Fasta posted 6 Years Ago Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 468, Visits: 3.5K	+x Lee34 - 9/4/2018 11:58:30 AM Hello guys my name is lee. I'm a welder fabricator and composites is a hobby. I've made a few Fibreglass items with success thanks to the easy composites video tutorials. Anyway I'm looking to make some Fibreglass fairings for my motorbike for track use and want some advise for making the molds. Obviously I'll use the original fairings as the plug but How should I go about filling the openings where the headlights and tail lights go without modifying original fairing? I want to be able to reuse them. thanks in advance You can temporarily fill small holes with Plasticine or wax, for bigger holes you can use a smooth material like the plastic core flute board and some hot glue to hold in place, then more wax to fill the remaining gaps. Fastacraft Facebook page
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Lee34	L Lee34 posted 6 Years Ago Post Details
L Group: Forum Members Posts: 2, Visits: 34	Thanks for the reply problem is the openings are curved shapes so flat board won't work. Thought about leaving lights in and using wax to seal around them. Thoughts?
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Steve Broad	Steve Broad posted 6 Years Ago Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 408, Visits: 4.1K	+x Lee34 - 9/4/2018 1:07:59 PM Thanks for the reply problem is the openings are curved shapes so flat board won't work. Thought about leaving lights in and using wax to seal around them. Thoughts? That will work and you could then add a vinyl image of the lights :-) You just need to make sure that you apply release agent properly otherwise you could damage the lights. That is the way I would do it, anyway :-)
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