Thanks for teaching me the roof flashing as a fiberglass mold technique. Flashing is fairly stiff, yet bendable. It is therefore lots better than aluminum foil as a mold, IMHO.
@@ninehundreddollarluxuryyac5958 I'm planning on adding a mini split AC to my RV. The ceiling mount units I'm going to use are intended to be mounted inside a ceiling - so they aren't waterproof or anything. I need an approximately 30"x30"x12" waterproof enclosure of some sort. Reasonably rugged. I've seen lots of videos of people doing stuff with fiberglass, but a lot of them were more concerned about looks than you. Watching them, I was wondering how many shortcuts I could take and still have something reasonable. Or whether I should just get some other material like a big sheet of ABS. Your video is perfect because it shows pretty much what I want to do. I figure that I will eventually make more things out of fiberglass and will figure out how to make them look prettier, but my roof mount AC will be covered by solar panels anyway, so nobody will look at it. Your workshop looks similar to what I will be working with. Even your hair length matches. :)
When you were wiping off the wax with your arm back and forth next to that sharp edge I was literally holding my breath. I got a whole lot of stitch from flashing when I was a kid it was so sharp I didn't even know I had been cut
I learned about this technique of laying fiberglass on sheet metal from youtube channel JMANTZEL. Jamie has built several boats this way. I wanted to try it out on something small before attempting anything as large as a boat. Jamie has an extensive playlist of all the videos he made about building his work boat this way.
I suggest using real steel for the battery box but that is because i don't like fire burning everything up and i like to access the batteries if i need to. A steel box will not catch on fire if the batteries get too hot and it can have a door and door seal to open it in case of maintenance. If you add the price of replacing the fiberglass box every time you need to replace a battery or maintenance them you might as well buy the steel and weld the box in the first place. Plus all that time it took, could have gone to welding the box once, and done for good. Otherwise each time you will need to rebuild a new fiber box.
Hi, you ever tried epoxy over cardboard and just keeping the cardboard? Or something like that . I figure be easy to build a box out of cardboard then epoxy over it to give it strength and waterproof…. Or epoxy + glass over it
Funny story, about the time I was finishing this, I went looking for more of these cheap used server rack batteries. What I found was an article saying they were supposed to be destroyed because they had caused over 20 fires at energy storage facilities in Korea. Battery Hookup never mentioned this when advertising the batteries for sale, so they will not go in the project I bought them for. David Poz has a youtube channel showing how to use the batteries sold by Battery Hookup. He deleted a warning I left in the comments on his channel so his viewers will not know about this hazard silently waiting to burn their houses down. I will make another video about that soon if TH-cam doesn't delete it.
I don't see you wearing a mask, I admire your ambition but you are gonna asphyxiate yourself in that closed room, solvents do not dissipate it hangs out on the floor, one time when you get on the floor like that you will smother yourself, be careful and get a mask, please. all love
I'm trying to do the same thing I thought of that you're doing but I thought of using tin foil instead of the wax and put the tin foil on the shape of the metal panel corrugated steel sheets I'm making. You put the aluminum on there to make the shape and then do some kind of fiberglass on the aluminum foil but I kind of also like the way you do it but I haven't started on this project but I'm learning from what you're showing me what do you think I could add for stability? Or anything other ideas I'm just trying to copy corrugated steel panels that I can't find anymore
I want some corrugated panels too. I actually want corrugations that are flat on the bottom and top. This pattern lets me glue a flat sheet on each side for a honeycomb effect making a much stronger panel for floors or roofs you can walk on. I take a piece of flat, thick foam and cut strips. Cut at an angle one way on one side and angled the other way on the other side of the strip. This makes a long strip where the sides are ramps that go from the ground up to the top of the strip and back down to the ground. Cover it with plastic, wax paper, maybe aluminum foil, I hear newspaper can work. Then lay glass over it to make a mold for one corrugation. Flat on the bottom, ramp up, across the top, ramp down and flat again at "ground level". The flat ground areas of many identical molded pieces like this get glued together into a rippled panel as wide as you need. In my case, I would glue a flat sheet on each side to make a structure similar to the walls of a cardboard box. If you need a lot of corrugated panels, pull a mold from the first panel you make from the strips and lay up whole panels based on that first one.
Nuts!!! Jaimie M was a neighbor and friend of mine back in Vermont. Thanks for the Insights here and reminder of his page
Thanks for teaching me the roof flashing as a fiberglass mold technique. Flashing is fairly stiff, yet bendable. It is therefore lots better than aluminum foil as a mold, IMHO.
Glad to hear someone has benefited from the video a year after it was made. Hopefully they will help for years to come. Thanks for letting me know!
@@ninehundreddollarluxuryyac5958 I'm planning on adding a mini split AC to my RV. The ceiling mount units I'm going to use are intended to be mounted inside a ceiling - so they aren't waterproof or anything.
I need an approximately 30"x30"x12" waterproof enclosure of some sort. Reasonably rugged.
I've seen lots of videos of people doing stuff with fiberglass, but a lot of them were more concerned about looks than you. Watching them, I was wondering how many shortcuts I could take and still have something reasonable. Or whether I should just get some other material like a big sheet of ABS.
Your video is perfect because it shows pretty much what I want to do. I figure that I will eventually make more things out of fiberglass and will figure out how to make them look prettier, but my roof mount AC will be covered by solar panels anyway, so nobody will look at it.
Your workshop looks similar to what I will be working with. Even your hair length matches. :)
When you were wiping off the wax with your arm back and forth next to that sharp edge I was literally holding my breath. I got a whole lot of stitch from flashing when I was a kid it was so sharp I didn't even know I had been cut
Excellent idea.
I learned about this technique of laying fiberglass on sheet metal from youtube channel JMANTZEL. Jamie has built several boats this way. I wanted to try it out on something small before attempting anything as large as a boat. Jamie has an extensive playlist of all the videos he made about building his work boat this way.
Gracias por compartir 👍 maximo respeto y mucha vibra positiva 😎
I suggest using real steel for the battery box but that is because i don't like fire burning everything up and i like to access the batteries if i need to. A steel box will not catch on fire if the batteries get too hot and it can have a door and door seal to open it in case of maintenance. If you add the price of replacing the fiberglass box every time you need to replace a battery or maintenance them you might as well buy the steel and weld the box in the first place. Plus all that time it took, could have gone to welding the box once, and done for good. Otherwise each time you will need to rebuild a new fiber box.
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you are a smart lady :) Jesus loves you!
Hi, you ever tried epoxy over cardboard and just keeping the cardboard? Or something like that .
I figure be easy to build a box out of cardboard then epoxy over it to give it strength and waterproof…. Or epoxy + glass over it
Shoulda' used Minwax mixed with mineral spirits as a release agent.
Well it's all insulated now. I never thought of that as a way to do it.
Funny story, about the time I was finishing this, I went looking for more of these cheap used server rack batteries. What I found was an article saying they were supposed to be destroyed because they had caused over 20 fires at energy storage facilities in Korea.
Battery Hookup never mentioned this when advertising the batteries for sale, so they will not go in the project I bought them for. David Poz has a youtube channel showing how to use the batteries sold by Battery Hookup. He deleted a warning I left in the comments on his channel so his viewers will not know about this hazard silently waiting to burn their houses down.
I will make another video about that soon if TH-cam doesn't delete it.
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Scary
Has it exploded yet due to lack of heat dissipation? And how you ever going to fix anything? Jeez.
Soo many bad ideas in one post, but hey if you don't care about shape, strengh and de-lamination why not.
I don't see you wearing a mask, I admire your ambition but you are gonna asphyxiate yourself in that closed room, solvents do not dissipate it hangs out on the floor, one time when you get on the floor like that you will smother yourself, be careful and get a mask, please. all love
Seems to have managed to reach a ripe an active old age without the Health and Safety advice so far……..
I think a splash of gel coat on the toe nails would improve the looks
I'm trying to do the same thing I thought of that you're doing but I thought of using tin foil instead of the wax and put the tin foil on the shape of the metal panel corrugated steel sheets I'm making. You put the aluminum on there to make the shape and then do some kind of fiberglass on the aluminum foil but I kind of also like the way you do it but I haven't started on this project but I'm learning from what you're showing me what do you think I could add for stability? Or anything other ideas I'm just trying to copy corrugated steel panels that I can't find anymore
I want some corrugated panels too. I actually want corrugations that are flat on the bottom and top. This pattern lets me glue a flat sheet on each side for a honeycomb effect making a much stronger panel for floors or roofs you can walk on. I take a piece of flat, thick foam and cut strips. Cut at an angle one way on one side and angled the other way on the other side of the strip. This makes a long strip where the sides are ramps that go from the ground up to the top of the strip and back down to the ground. Cover it with plastic, wax paper, maybe aluminum foil, I hear newspaper can work. Then lay glass over it to make a mold for one corrugation. Flat on the bottom, ramp up, across the top, ramp down and flat again at "ground level". The flat ground areas of many identical molded pieces like this get glued together into a rippled panel as wide as you need. In my case, I would glue a flat sheet on each side to make a structure similar to the walls of a cardboard box. If you need a lot of corrugated panels, pull a mold from the first panel you make from the strips and lay up whole panels based on that first one.