On Aug 20, 7:59*am, Bob Kuykendall wrote:
On Aug 19, 7:34*pm, Uncle Fuzzy wrote:

Speaking of thanks.... in characteristic style, I neglected to than
Bob Kuykendall for his advice regarding mold making, and DG for
publishing their findings in the first place. *Does any other glider
manufacturer 'share' as much? This is an honest question. *I've spent
quite a lot of time on the DG site, very little on any others.

You're quite welcome, of course. Nice looking piece, I think you
nailed the shape! Interesting to see how your idea follows that of
Dick Butler--exhausting the vent air on top instead of on the bottom.

Now you get to experience the joys of sanding, filling, sanding, and
painting a 3D shape... Some folks ask me why I still mold on gelcoat,
why do I do that when others have made a practice of molding bare and
painting afterwards? My general answer is so that I can put the orange
peel and pinholes on the inside where nobody will ever know they're
there.

Thanks, Bob K.

LOL! The bodywork is tedious but simple. I can do that. Next time
I'm going to get REAL tooling resin! BTW, I am getting senile. AFTER
all the pain of making a fiberglass mold from the hatch, I realized I
could have pulled one on my vacuum form in minutes. I even have
several flavors of theromplastics on hand. D'oh! Mold rigidity is
achieved by filling the back of the mold with plaster of paris, which
I ALSO had on hand. Maybe an hour of hands-on work to produce the mold.