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bricolage in an oakland workshop
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Testing seatpan fitment
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OK, top piece has cured and been demolded/roughly trimmed. Looks like it mates well enough with the bottom piece and with a bit more layup ...
Monday, December 22, 2008
initial seatpan glass applied
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A few layers of fiberglass later and this is what you see now. Compound corners were fairly tough to cover especially draping over a square...
Sunday, December 21, 2008
seatpan mold prepped and draped
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Saturday, December 20, 2008
le chapeau
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Made a cardboard shell to define the seatpan proper. I'll tape it up to the frame and douse everything in PVA before layering some epox...
Monday, December 8, 2008
ten hours later
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And it's cured well enough to pop out of the form. It'll take a bit of clean up trimming around the edges but it looks promising en...
Sunday, December 7, 2008
goopy mess
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And here's several layers of glass slopped down with black tinted epoxy. Whole layup took 30 minutes or so which is probably 20 too lon...
Saturday, December 6, 2008
seatpan frame
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Instead of choosing from any number of perfectly easy, cheap and nicely shaped XR750 style seatpans out there that could probably just bolt ...
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