Scuttle Sunday - Part 1:
Managed to get quite a bit done today, so here goes...
I tidied up the edges of the fibreglass next to the final corners to be covered.
Then cut out some matting to build this section up to match the rest.
I ended up adding some extra matting strips along the top before the corners ended up looking like this.
There is still a bit of work required to get a smooth join, but I need to grind back some more of the gel coat first.
At this point it was too early on a Sunday to switch on my angle grinder!
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I had half an idea to build up the inside sections behind the trunking like this.
But when the time came. I abandoned this and just added the shaped layer of matting instead.
Instead I think I will have a go at making the chopped matting filler than other builders have used.
I already have a bag full of the stuff to use up.
This is a result of me storing the matting vertically and putting a series of "creases" at the bottom.
Well, the box was left in the garden shed for over a year before I even took it out to look at it.
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Then came another round of destruction...
I removed the cross brace from the body shell as the "partial" scuttle is already strong enough to support the body shell.
Then I cut the "lumps" off both sides of the body shell.
Then I took my lump hammer to the "lump" on the passenger side of the bulkhead.
Before:
After:
I will come back and tidy this up with filler another day.
While the lump hammer was out, I gave the driver's side a couple of blows for luck.
But the destruction didn't end there...