Hey Jerry, got a question for you...
I have noticed a lot of cracks in the body of the fiberglass.
Is this something that I should be worried about.????? :o
John
Quote from: John Eversoll on October 09, 2009, 07:54:00 PM
Hey Jerry, got a question for you...
I have noticed a lot of cracks in the body of the fiberglass.
Is this something that I should be worried about.????? :o
John
Mine has a lot of spider cracks too.
I'm not really too worried about the cracks, but I'm guessing the cracks will need fixed when I get ready to paint.
Got that one right!!!! I am going to go with Hunter green to match my Chevell SS
or a Metallic grey... Heavy on the metallic. Not real sure yet, still have to get the new motor in the rig. :)John
We fixed our stress cracks by Veeing them out and glassing them back up when we painted it. Nothing was deep, more of a gel coat blemish.
JerryT
I've seen the same thing on my 1977 Clipper too. V'ing them out? You can take what I know about working with fiberglass, fill a thimble and still have plenty of room to wiggle your finger. Can anyone advise me what I need to do? I am taking mine over to a painter Thursday Morning and he's painting the cab portion only. Going with the original cream color but without the stripes for now. He's quoted me $900.00 but will also do all four wheels and side mirror brackets (severely rusted). Followed by a nice clearcoate over everything. I eventually plan on painting out the strips along the coach sides and back with the same original cream. Hope to eventually do something a little different for the strips.. maybe even white on cream.
Jim in Oceanside, CA
Member # 3714
hI jIM, THAT SOUNDS GREAT,
" I hate caps"
I have cracks here and there...And really don't like that chocolate brown so I think I
am going to repaint the brown to a nice Blue"
Anyway let me know the out come I might use your guy!! John "out"
I sure will, John! Dropped mine off this morning with a deposit to cover the materials, after taking some "before" pictures.
Jim
I got the Clipper back and am very pleased with the paint-job. I'll download the pictures and post them here.