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Great news!So, an update. After the last fibreglass layer was applied I decided to stress test the machine before painting it, in case the crack came back. And here we are, a month later, and it's still holding! After many hours of enthusiastic play, and at least once forgetting that it was possibly fragile and putting my weight on the corner of the panel while crawling beneath it, there's been no movement.
So the next step is sanding and filling the outside, then painting it.
There's not really much to it. I used a straight weave (90 degrees crossover) glass matt, because I knew the direction of the stress and I wanted to maximize the strength. The scramble weave is more omni-directional. I used some coarse sandpaper to rough up the inside of the cab, and then it was just resin, fibreglass, resin. Wait 2 days, sand it LIGHTLY (so you don't tear any fibres) resin fibreglass (at 45 degrees to the first layer) resin, wait 2 days, and one final layer in line with the first.Great news!
I seen some youtube videos of fiber glass repair in the same method you outlined. Do you have a list for the materials you used?
Yeah I can't fault you for that. I'd have probably paid someone if there was someone to pay. No one wanted to deal with me, every time I reached out to a repair shop they basically heard 'arcade machine' and ghosted me. Too weird, too much effort. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯I ended up paying a guy to repair the crack for me. I just had too many questions and did not want to jump head into this. I'm still satisfied with the results, but much less cooler than what you did.
I think so. The crack is gone and it feels well reinforced in those areas.Yeah I can't fault you for that. I'd have probably paid someone if there was someone to pay. No one wanted to deal with me, every time I reached out to a repair shop they basically heard 'arcade machine' and ghosted me. Too weird, too much effort. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Did it come good?
I would remove it first. Better to know for sure what's going on than relying on that tiny mystery.should I fiberglass over that existing patch?