Club Parts effort?

**Marcolino** · 20-01-2013, 21:05

Hi John,

i have got a 4 liter container but i do not put parts in it. I am using the pump for extracting the air out of the resin (in the container) and to press the resin with the fibre into the mould (vaccum with the blue perforated foil, have a look at the handbook). The biggest parts i made this way had a length of 120cm (rc model boat) with one part moulds.
I made some smaller (lets say 3D) parts with two part moulds, the biggest ones were 15cm x 10cm x 5cm. I used highly fluid expoxid resin (HT2) and powdered carbon fibre. Worked ok for my application, wall thinkness was big enough to stabilize.

**john** · 29-05-2013, 22:54

Hi again all,
I'm taking this a little further by starting off with the side repeater indicator's.
While buying some resin materials the other day I got speaking to the proprietor of the business and showed him a good side indicator.
His opinion is that such a small part would not require degassing of the resin or any fancy materials.
We have come up with a way of making the lens and lamp base in resin as one piece, and the unit would be completed with the addition of a flat metal or plastic plate incorporating a bulb holder and a couple of fixing screws. The two parts would then be joined using a waterproof adhesive sealer. Of course you could still change the bulb as on the original units.
I'm also making a mould for the gaskets which the lamp unit's sit on.
Is everybody using the "flat" gasket? The new lamps that I have came with both a flat gasket and a gasket with a thicker leading edge presumable for fitting to bodywork with more of a curve on it.
Most of the photos I've checked out show a flat gasket of uniform thickness between lamp and body, but just thought I'd ask for more confirmation.

**john** · 11-09-2013, 22:51

Here is the first side repeater lens out of the new mould.
This has been made in UV stabilised Epoxy resin and pigmented.
A bit too Orange? What do you think?
In lieu of the metal rim I thickened out the lens at that point before taking the mould and I figured that portion could just be painted silver.
Now I just need a metal mounting plate with a bulb holder in it, and a mould for the black mounting 'gaskets' and I'll be in production!

**ChrisCar6** · 12-09-2013, 00:51

Depends how faded the original was!
Silver paint would do it to finish.
Any idea of cost?

**john** · 12-09-2013, 09:09

Not sure on cost yet. The set-up cost has not been as high as feared yet because I have not had to go down the route of vacuum/pressure chambers. I'm still working on the mounting plate etc.
It'll be a reasonable price for club members anyway.
I'm seriously thinking of doing back light lenses too, and the lamp bodies are do-able too.
I have an original rear light which would sacrifice for a pattern but I don't have front indicator/side lights or original pattern fog/reverse lights, so if anyone has suitable items in their parts bins please let me know. They don't have to be perfect.

**The Slug** · 12-09-2013, 09:19

Looking good John

**goldtop** · 12-09-2013, 12:11

Fantastic work. Among the spares that I got with B694KRX this week, I believe I have reversing and fog lights. If you can wait until I'm back from holiday in about 10 days' time, I can take some photos to confirm they're the appropriate type and then send them over?