Thread: How I make fiberglass upholstery panels for strange shapes.

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Yeuchhhhh----what a slimy horrible mess. For saying that they build such beautifull things out of fiberglass, it is one smelly, slimy, ugly mess of snot to do business with. I gave some bad information in my last post.---Do NOT wet this stuff on a workbench and then try to carry it to the car---what was I thinking????---its like trying to carry oiled toilet paper. Proper way to do this is to cut the mat to the correct shape, mix up your resin, and apply the resin to the surface of the drywall mud with an old paintbrush, (slather it on good). Then pick up the peice of still dry mat, carry it over to the car, position it correctly, then push it against the wetted surface with the old paintbrush. Keep wetting the paintbrush in the can of mixed resin and gently press the mat into the wetted surface untill the mat has no white areas (dry areas) left on it. Then repeat. The resin was setting up fast today, so I didn't wait after the first 2 layers of glass were applied. I went right to the third (I only used 3 layers of mat). I used any remaining resin in the can to recoat both cab corners and to smooth the mat down a bit more. Now I will wait a couple of days, then pry the hardened fiberglass forms off (thats why everything was coated with paste wax, to act as a release agent.