Of coures we care Mark... :-)

Clive

'88 Syncro Transporter

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Thoma" <thoma@MINDSPRING.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2002 9:29 PM
Subject: Custom scoop update

For those who care . . .

My first attempt at making a custom scoop from the passenger side female
mold ended in abject failure.  I waxed the mold (which had been gelcoated)
heavily, mixed up some resin/hardener, poured it into the mold, spread it
around with a paintbrush, then laid down the first layer of fiberglass
cloth.  Something went way wrong.  I used too much hardener with the resin
and it set up much too quickly.  But that wouldn't have been such a disaster
but apparently pushing the resin around the mold with a paintbrush was a big
mistake.  The brush removed the wax from parts of the mold and when I went
to lift the scoop out of the mold it wouldn't come.  Bummer!  After much
tugging and swearing I got pieces of the scoop out of the mold but
unfortunately a few remnants remain.  So now I need to get those out and
repair the mold (which should be pretty easy.)  Then I'm going to take both
molds to a fiberglass shop and see what they'd charge me to use a "chopper
gun" to blow fiberglass into the molds. All they have to do is one layer,
then I'll go back and use regular fiberglass cloth and add several more
layers.  Should take a couple of weeks.

Mark Thoma