Try West System 6-10 epoxy adhesive for your filler, then finish it out with West Epoxy and their thickener! Check them out, Have been working with glass for 50 years and it works very well doesn't shrink and won't Crack there again. If you are a little deep with your prep, add some fiberglass to your repair! Thanks for the video
As a Bodyman of many many years, I’m really shocked you don’t have to use a mesh tape to structural repair that crack, and drill the end. If I did that on a bumper repair crack, it would split back open. I don’t work on RV’s and maybe you’ve had good luck with this process, I’m just surprised it doesn’t open back up over time. Maybe I’m not giving your product enough credit. Not criticizing, more curious on your luck with this process. Thanks
100%. You have to get some glass into that repair or that filler will just crack along the line. Depending on how thick the material being repaired was I would use a layer of chopped strand mat at a minimum and preferably some biaxial fabric like 1708 if the material being repaired was over 3/32" thick. I work on boats.
Awesome video!! Thanks for sharing Quick question. Which filler do you recommend to go over the filon. It has to be flexible. It’s going from the corner of the roof to the side wall. It just has to be smoothed out. Trying to fix a previous sh?tyy repair job
@boostedZ how much could you charge a client to do a similar job today? I have an RV with a similar crack (location, color, size) and I'm trying to figure out how much this would cost to get repaired. Thanks!
I didnt on this one that is a good practice tho i mainly do that with cast iron repairs but a great question and great tip for people looki g to repair as well!
I have no body or fiberglass experience so this is a purely uneducated question, would the body filler with fiberglass "hair" in it work for rv repair?
After working in a industrial business for 30 years and required to wear a mask for personal protection, facial hair was not acceptable as you could not get a good seal between the mask and your face to protect you from breathing in the fine particles through your facial hairs. So at this point it doesn’t matter if you wear a mask or not!
To each there own I’ve repaired many thangs like this with no issues long term as we all know in the auto body world there are many way to repair thangs all may not be perfect but to each their own on how they want to repair stuff I do respect people comments if you have tips to and in for people to see and I encourage you to make some videos if you feel you have some good tips to share! 🤘
@@boostedz72- Good answer! I always go to comments, especially when I really don’t know much about the process I’m trying to learn about. I don’t know about hole drilling or not, so I appreciate seeing the variety and the reply
Very nice job very professional sir
Thank you!
Try West System 6-10 epoxy adhesive for your filler, then finish it out with West Epoxy and their thickener! Check them out, Have been working with glass for 50 years and it works very well doesn't shrink and won't Crack there again. If you are a little deep with your prep, add some fiberglass to your repair! Thanks for the video
I like the way you taped off the area. I never knew how to avoid those hard lines!
Thank you!
Thanks for your input
As a Bodyman of many many years, I’m really shocked you don’t have to use a mesh tape to structural repair that crack, and drill the end. If I did that on a bumper repair crack, it would split back open. I don’t work on RV’s and maybe you’ve had good luck with this process, I’m just surprised it doesn’t open back up over time. Maybe I’m not giving your product enough credit. Not criticizing, more curious on your luck with this process. Thanks
100%. You have to get some glass into that repair or that filler will just crack along the line. Depending on how thick the material being repaired was I would use a layer of chopped strand mat at a minimum and preferably some biaxial fabric like 1708 if the material being repaired was over 3/32" thick. I work on boats.
A lot of good knowledge!
Thank you!
you forgot to drill a hole at the end of the crack to keep it from getting longer...body repair 101
Awesome video!! Thanks for sharing
Quick question. Which filler do you recommend to go over the filon. It has to be flexible. It’s going from the corner of the roof to the side wall. It just has to be smoothed out. Trying to fix a previous sh?tyy repair job
Polyurethane filler
Thank you
@boostedZ how much could you charge a client to do a similar job today? I have an RV with a similar crack (location, color, size) and I'm trying to figure out how much this would cost to get repaired. Thanks!
What was the stuff you filled it with? A had the same thing happen on some horrible roads
We used 100ez fuser
Do you stop drill the crack? Flexing while driving might cause the crack to migrate?
I didnt on this one that is a good practice tho i mainly do that with cast iron repairs but a great question and great tip for people looki g to repair as well!
Problem is, why did it crack? Is the slide out dropping, not affixed properly or misaligned?
Ya the slide out had dropped they had fixed that before i started with my repair but that is a great question as why did the crack happen!
I have no body or fiberglass experience so this is a purely uneducated question, would the body filler with fiberglass "hair" in it work for rv repair?
Ya that should work fine!!
@@boostedz72 thanks for the super quick reply! I haven't been able to find any info on that product in that application
We have the same problem in the same spot. Where are you located?
Casper Wyoming
Where you located
Caspar wy
Links to the products?
I don’t have any links sorry!
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Interesting but that not what I would do.😎😎😎
Dude you didn't show hiw you painted it, or the finished product!🥴🥴
After working in a industrial business for 30 years and required to wear a mask for personal protection, facial hair was not acceptable as you could not get a good seal between the mask and your face to protect you from breathing in the fine particles through your facial hairs. So at this point it doesn’t matter if you wear a mask or not!
Amazing that you laid down no glass no stop drill no wet lay up. You did nothing to "repair" that crack
To each there own I’ve repaired many thangs like this with no issues long term as we all know in the auto body world there are many way to repair thangs all may not be perfect but to each their own on how they want to repair stuff I do respect people comments if you have tips to and in for people to see and I encourage you to make some videos if you feel you have some good tips to share! 🤘
@@boostedz72- Good answer! I always go to comments, especially when I really don’t know much about the process I’m trying to learn about. I don’t know about hole drilling or not, so I appreciate seeing the variety and the reply