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Glassin plastic bumpers

Postby Ae92typeX » Sat May 15, 2004 7:55 pm

While Ive got the supra off the road I was thinking about doing a little custom work on the bumpers,
What I was wondering, from those who have done it, is how does fibreglassing the plastic bumpers turn out?
Im sweet as at fibreglassing but havent tried modding a bumper with it.
I know I could go down the plastic welding path, but wouldnt mind trying this either.
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Postby grpaw11 » Sun May 16, 2004 12:33 am

In my experience those plastic bumpers warp badly when exposed to polyester resins.

Epoxy may be better but then again maybe not.
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Postby Ae92typeX » Sun May 16, 2004 9:09 am

sweet, cheers.
I guess I will either forget it or look at useing the std bumber as a mould and then going from there.
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