Thursday, January 24, 2008

Jan. 22nd-24th

As hoped everything is still going smoothly with the side panels. As a little refreshment of the past, I had some issues involving the heating in the shop. The shop is heated by an L shaped ceiling heater that works VERY well...almost TOO well. In the picture below, you can see how it is directly over my work space. At first I didn't think this to be an issue, but in fact it caused lots of bubbling on the panels which consumed lots of time and required fixing. This one section n particular, needed to be scraped free and reglassed (sorry, I don't have pictures of fix in steps)
Anyways, hopefully this issue had been resolved by moving the panels from directly underneath the heater as well as the addition of some fans to properly circulate the heat.

Now these last couple days I was able to finish sanding the exterior of the side panels to 220 grit paper and clean up their edges of excess glass. Then I flipped them and applied a flow coat of clear epoxy to each panel. Today, I will be sanding this coat and appying another!
(pre-epoxy interior side)

(one side with applied flow coat)

(both sides coated and drying)