Wet Lay 'Decorative' Carbon Over Fibreglass


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Hi, I am planning on doing a carbon covering of the ugly fibreglass hull (inside engine bay not exterior) of a jet ski. It will be purely cosmetic with the green 'decorative' carbon sheeting. Ive calculated I will need around 2m of the carbon, and wanted to know firstly roughly how much resin I would need to mix, and secondly if it would be ok to use a coat of resin on the fibreglass first and allow it to 'tack off' to help keep the carbon in position before a thick coating of resin.

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Matthieu Libeert
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Hanaldo; I think you are making a miscalculation Smile if you use the full 2sqm and you count a perfect 50/50 resin/fiber ratio on a 200g/sqm you will need 
400gram, of course this is a good ratio you get with infusion and so on so you will def. need more resin, would say around 600g
but like Hanaldo says you wont probably use the full 2sqm so might be less but if you buy 1kg of resin you should have enough Smile

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