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@@Christopherbever Hi, Thanks for watching, sure you can make a new piece and glass it in, just make sure that polyester resin will stick to it, try a small area first, let it harden good and try sanding it, if it doesn’t sand correctly or peels off its most likely SMC resin you will need to do the repairs in, Hope this helps, Thanks John

@@EYEBALLJOHNsKUSTOMKORNER that’s a great suggestion thank you! I will try that! It’s a brand that’s no longer in business and being pre Internet forum era there’s not a lot of info on them. I’ve been researching honeycomb panel from the boat builders to patch in as it’s the very top piece of each tool box that’s delaminating. I plan on fabricating an aluminum diamond plate top sheet for it in the long run since it’s sagging and not built for structural load anyway, plus will look cool 😎

Its hard to do fiberglass work upside down, I've had my share of resin arms. LOL, you can do multiple layers at a time, I usually brush resin on the repair area then place the mat on and start to brush more resin on it, be careful as to.many layers of glass could fall.off , you know that gravity thing, and if you want to do more layers on cured mat just rough up the area with some 36 or 40 grit paper and place your other layers on, Hope this Helps, Thanks for watching, more videos to come

@@EYEBALLJOHNsKUSTOMKORNER You're great! Thanks for feeling my pain wrt upside down fiberglass work. Anxiously waiting for more videos.

Hi, Thanks for watching, the stress cracks on the door were sanded with 36 grit on a orbital sander first, not sure if that was in the video, not 100% sure of the area your referring to on your hood, but any hood repair is a little more difficult because of the opening and closing and vibration the hood gets from just driving, the only thing I could tell you make sure you grind down as far as you can go on top and bottom so to add more strength and to it, Hope this helps,

@@EYEBALLJOHNsKUSTOMKORNER you can't access the underside as it's a closed box channel that travels around the underside edge of the bonnet for strength. You'd have to split it open to access the inside, so maybe create a slot to slide a thin flat piece of metal and epoxy it on the inside and resin and fibre mat on the outside? Not sure if I'm going down a rabbit hole with this.

@swann747 ok now I understand your talking about the inner support, if the repair keeps failing you would have to open up the support do the repair and glass up the support

@vikingtrad3r yes use the smc resin just like the polyester, the smc resin is thicker then the polyester and will build up faster, Thanks for watching, Glad you like it

Soda blast is the way to go for stripping paint, if you don't want to do it yourself,

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@@blackknightauto Hi, Thanks for watching, Glad you liked the video, for 72 use the polyester resin, although some people use the SMC resin on all the years, I like using the polyester on 72 and older, Hope this helps, Thanks John

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Hi, Glad you liked the video, it sounds like you have air bubbles trapped in the resin, it happens, try and work them out with the brush or use a fiberglass roller to break them up, it akso depends on the resin your using, some resins are thicker then others and trap more air, I use a very thin polyester resin but buy from a supplier that sells to boat yards, Hope this Helps, Thanks for watching.

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Hi, I’ve been working on so many projects ,I’ve been doing a lot of video taking ,haven’t had time to put them together, expect New videos by the end of June, Thanks for watching

Thanks for the tip, i some time add polyester thickener to the resin and make a paste and use that to fill I’m small pin holes or low spots, Thanks for watching

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If your repairing fiberglass it's best to use fiberglass, kitty hair gorilla hair all those hairs are just chopped up fiberglass mat with bondo, it can be fixed using those products but as far as lasting or any strength, it's not going to last, Hope this Helps, Thanks for watching

Hi, I would use polyester resin and fiberglass mat, Hope this helps , Thanks for watching

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Hi, I haven’t used lacquer primer in quite a while, even if a customer wants there car painted in lacquer paint I still use polyester primer first then urethane primer on top of that then lacquer paint, lacquer primer will not hold down the fibers in the fiberglass and will eventually shrink and show up in your paint work, and as far as top coats go I use urethane paints they last much longer then lacquer or enamel paints, Hope this helps, Thanks for watching my videos

@@EYEBALLJOHNsKUSTOMKORNER Ive never shot "lacker paint." Only polyurethane acrylic enamel and base coat clear coat.

@@EYEBALLJOHNsKUSTOMKORNER Thanks for your response. So how would you treat exposed from desert heat worn off paint fiberglass before respray? Would you just use polyester primer first then urethane primer and then shoot it with polyurethane acrylic enamel single stage? Thanks again.

@ricksteelcustoms3196 it depends, are there hairs from the glass showing? That would need more work, if its just worn out and faded then sand with 180 grit and use polyester primer to seal the fiberglass then use your urethane primer

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Hi, Thanks for watching my videos, Glad you liked them, let me try and answer all your questions, I use 2 inch masking tape in areas that have a hole or the glass is missing so the Mat has something to holed to, if I fill in any holes that need to be there I will drill them out later, early Corvettes were bare glass for the most part on the backsides and under floor boards, it was smooth but still had a slight texture, wheel wells were painted black with some undercoating on them,. You don’t have to coat the back side of the glass but sometimes it’s a good idea, fiberglass is like a sponge and will soak up any oils or dirt that it comes in contact with, after the fiberglass cures I usually start sanding with either 36 or 40 grit paper and then 80 grit, normally stop at 80 grit and polyester prime over that. Most likely your car being a kit car was hand layer fiberglass so it’s normal to have a rougher finish on the back, you can duplicate that finish very easily when applying your glass work. I met Ed Roth back in 96 at a local car show, a friend of mine introduced me to him , as we talked he found out I did sculpting also and asked if I would be interested in doing a sculpture with him of a large Flying Eyeball, so who says no to Big Daddy, so the next day I was back at the show with 5 pounds of clay and Ed and I spent the day together sculpting , he gave me the sculpt said finish it up and make a mold of it, I did and started making them for him along with a smaller version as a shifter knob, after that he gave me the name Eyeballjohn, Hope I was able to answer your questions, I have many videos I’m presently working on and Hope to have up soon, Thanks again for watching, John

Hi, I usually grind down the repair area as much as needed without going through, if it’s a crack that can be seen I normally keep grinding until the crack is gone, but if you are able to do glass work on the back of the panel I would only go half way down in front and then do the same to the crack on the back of panel, 53 and 54 were the only years that cloth was used on some panels, if your restoring those years to original you want to see the pattern in the finale paint work, if you want to get rid of the woven pattern you would need to grind off enough glass to be able to put 2 to 3 layers of Mat fiberglass over it, Hope this helps Thanks for watching, More videos on the way

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Absolutely correct

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No actually the car is still in bare glass, it took over a year to get the Restomod chassis, I couldn’t finish all the glass work until body was mounted on chassis and I’m just fitting the doors , hood and deck lid now, Hopefully it will be in primer soon

@@EYEBALLJOHNsKUSTOMKORNER Thanks for posting your videos, they are very informatative. I fully understand the long lead times for chassis. i ordered an Art Morrison chassis November of 2022, 14 months ago for a 62 corvette and still waiting. However, I have been told it is now about complete and should be receiving it within the next month. The lead time on some items is just crazy.

The door had very fine stress cracks, so it was better to fix then worry about them coming back later

Hi, Happy Holidays, I know I’ve been lacking putting up new videos, I’m running around working on 10 projects at once, I have some videos I’m editing now trying to make them look as professional as possible as far as video making is concerned, it’s a lot of work to one of these together, Hope to have some up soon, Thanks for checking in, John

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Hi, your 76 vette will need SMC resin to make your repairs. 3/4 once mat works very well, it absorbs the resin quickly, you can also use the smc resin on your Bronco stress cracks

Yes, I have other videos in the making, on all repairs and panel replacement, which year Vette are you interested in seeing quarter panel repairs?

Are you referring to the repair on the edge of the door or the center?

Yes, any cracks in the fiberglass

Hi, Thanks for watching Glad you liked the video, I will be making more videos covering the complete restoration of a Classic Corvette, keep,an eye out for them, Thanks

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Someone should make a metal Corvette, Lol, but you could most likely get the same effect using gold or silver leaf and making a pattern in it, Thanks for watching, John