Fiberglass Plug / Mould not great :-(

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So when I have taken a closer look at the nosecone, I see there are substantial issues with its look around the seems. What I mean is the body looks great, but has substantial obvious plug separation joins. Is there any polishing compound that will remove this?

I like the colour and do not want to respray it, but can't leave the marks on as they are all around the nosecone front and from the nose back to the back of the nosecone. Does this make any sense to any of you reading?

I thought about maybe 1200 grit wet and dry, but some of the marks will be quite visible.

Cheers

Nick

[Scott]

Hi Nick,

Always tricky, like you im worried i might make it worse, but i have been doing some work on our molds, and found that 2000 wet & dry flats out pretty well, then you need to polish it out with G3 or G6 Compound paste and ideally and mop on machine i bought some 3" round pads to go in air die grinder and it polished up well, just need to be careful you have a thick enough gel coat as you dont want to rub through!!!

Scott

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Cheers Scott,


I have a few seams underneath I can practise on, so will do and post my results :-)

Cheers

Nick

[roadtrackrace]

The flashlines need to be polished off using progressively finer grits of wet and dry, (1000, 1500, 2000 etc) and then finished with a good rubbing compound before final polishing.

There is plenty of Gel Coat on the panels so you will easily be able to remove the flash lines without rubbing through the Gel coat.

RTR

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Cheers for that,

I will be giving it a go this weekend, and will post pictures of before and after hopefully showing a shiney nosecone ;D

Nick