You can repair babe Car damage yourself
Infrequent matters fix machine lovers on limit added than the squeal of brakes and the crunch of fiberglass. Whether your 1975 Corvette is damaged in a fender bender or some worse accident, you can't fair purchase replacement parts off the shelf. You can repair babe damage and holes yourself in a age with materials purchased at your nearest hardware store. Greater thing damage should be repaired by a finished.
Instructions
Prepare the Car
1. Tap the universe on all sides of the damage with the stock of a paintbrush to end how Broad the delaminated (split layers) universe is. There may be damage that you cannot eye. Bully fiberglass Testament cook a fulgid tapping blare, damaged fiberglass sounds stupid when tapped.
2. Divide elsewhere the damaged globe with an electric axiom or rotary cutting effects. Deposit the gap as Hand-bill (or oval) as credible to supply remainder of the fiberglass with filled impulse.
3. Grind a 1-inch phone environing the gap. You should oomph past the paint and into the fiberglass, creating a depression so that the patch you add will not create a lump on the finished surface.
4. Brush away any dust and clean the area with acetone.
5. Cut out three pieces of fiberglass mat the shape and size of the ground area.
6. Lay the first piece of fiberglass on a sheet of cardboard.
Patching the Hole
7. Mix a batch of fiberglass resin and catalyst in a disposable bucket. The exact ratio will be on the resin container.
8. Use a paintbrush to tap catalyzed resin into the fiberglass on the cardboard. Lift the fiberglass patch off of the cardboard with a razor blade.12. Set the patch over the hole and ground area and smooth it against any curves in the car. Use masking tape to hold it in place.
10. Paint a bit of resin onto the ground surface of the Corvette.
11. Tapping the resin will help to fully saturate the glass fibers as well as force out any trapped air bubbles.9. Place the second piece of fiberglass onto the first and tap in more resin, then add the third and the final coat of resin.
13. Allow the patch to cure until it hardens and dries fully.
14. Remove as much of the masking tape as you can (some will be stuck to the patch).
15. Fill in any voids with auto body filler and allow it to dry.
16. Use a palm sander to sand the patch flush with the rest of the car. Begin with coarse sandpaper, and gradually move to finer and finer grades.
17.Paint on fiberglass primer and allow it to dry.
18. Polish the primer with wet/dry sandpaper.
19. Paint the patched area to match the rest of the car.
