mould section joins


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Hi everyone.
I've been reasonably successful with building the mould for my front bodywork (which has gone very well for a first attempt, picture is as it came off the bodywork).
The moulds look horrible there but the paint that came off cleaned up fairly easily and I'm in the process of cleaning up the moulds, flanges and making any repairs before going on to making the carbon version.

However one bit I'm not too happy with is that the joins between the mould sections are a bit rough. Is there any way of improving or filling these up prior to making the new bodywork? It'll need work done afterwards anyway but just seeing if there is a way to improve them at all. I'll see if I can get a more representative photo later today.
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Yeah, that's it. I tried smoothing the fillets down fairly small, but not enough. My 20-20 hindsight says I should have used a proper tool to smooth out the joins properly, but its all learning I guess!
Just thinking, I guess I could apply release agent to one piece, bolt two sections together and fill the join with gelcoat. Would allow it to be smoothed out and the parts should separate alright
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Yeah, normally your temp flange will be fitted/butted close to your body/pattern/plug and then any remaining gaps filled with wax or plasticine but clean and scrape it off square and sharp with a square corner tool. A light wax and clean then it's ready to mould. The mating flange will also finish sharp. This no help to you now though!

So your mould joins now appear as a "V" kind of hollow? this should be filled with wax or plasticine and cleaned off near flush with flat tool or blade. Then maybe a very light layer fglass across your mould joins just make the soft wax area firm and stable. Now follow though with your laminate set up for infusion.

The finished part will just have a fglass tape where your joins are. If you are intending a gel coat part then spray this down before the fglass but still fglass across the join areas on the gel coat so they are firm.

All this assumes you are not going for a clear cosmetic carbon part though?




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