My new MX seat pan, from can to pan..

[125ccCrazy]

Yesterday I had a can of resin, sheet of matting and one broken seat pan for my two bonanzas.... after glassing a patch on the orig pan to get it back in shape as it was nearly broke in half I decided to make a new pan for the other bonanza when I eventually start on that one.... Well here is what I came up with using the old pan as a mold..... The new one is thicker especially in the rump area where the orig pans were kind of weak from lack of support....

Original pan
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New Pan
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[mardyn]

That's bad ass!

now, make me up a set of repop Bonanza fiberglass fenders while you're at it.

 

[125ccCrazy]

That's bad ass!

now, make me up a set of repop Bonanza fiberglass fenders while you're at it.

Thank You......:smile:

got a fender for a mold?? are they the same style as the chrome fenders??

 

[mardyn]

Yeah, same style as the chrome ones... and I do have one decent extra that we could use as a pattern.

mardyn

 

[bandit 40]

Again Ill say Randi ,you did a great job:smile: on that reproduction seat pan, that is alot better built than the original :thumbsup:

 

[Tomas]

Nice !:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

 

[125ccCrazy]

Yeah, same style as the chrome ones... and I do have one decent extra that we could use as a pattern.

If you can post a pic or drop me a pm and I'll give ya my email to send the pic to.... One word of warning.... I don't have a way of gel coating parts, the finish would be simular to my seat pan and would need some minor filling...

I'm gonna make some glass fenders for my Wildcat 500, I only got one with the bike and they are HTF..... I'd rather have chrome but painted looks good too..

mardyn

Again Ill say Randi ,you did a great job:smile: on that reproduction seat pan, that is alot better built than the original :thumbsup:

Nice !:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

Thanks Guys..... didn't turn out too bad for about an hour and a half work...

Now I have the itchy and scratchys LOL..... Heat+fiberglass grinding=:thumbdown:

 

[delray]

nice job:thumbsup:125ccCrazy
i made a repro fiberglass mtd cover. a guy can make just about anything out of fiberglass:smile:

mtd made two different covers. my cover is the older style(bottom cover)

 

[125ccCrazy]

nice job:thumbsup:125ccCrazy
i made a repro fiberglass mtd cover. a guy can make just about anything out of fiberglass:smile:

Thanks DelRay

That cover looks slick, did you finish it and paint it??..... I wish I had an old cover for my Wildcat 500 to mold off of, they are pretty simple in design, , mostly flat straight panels with a round bump for the clutch, I might make a mold from cardboard and give it a shot...

I just moled two fenders for the Wildcat yesterday off the one fender I had for it... only thing that sucks is I dont have a way to lay down gelcoat first to prevent all the air bubbles in the finished surface so I hit it with a light blast to open up an air pockets and then skimmed it with Duraglass to fill the pits followed with Dolphin Glaze polyester glazzing filler....

 

[delray]

another thing to think about when you are making glass parts is to lay a piece of flat steel(stainless steel or aluminum,so it won't rust)in the glass work for support when mounting it up to something. this would be any place you need to drill a hole to bolt it up to a bracket or something. this way the glass won't crack on you.:thumbsup:

 

[125ccCrazy]

another thing to think about when you are making glass parts is to lay a piece of flat steel(stainless steel or aluminum,so it won't rust)in the glass work for support when mounting it up to something. this would be any place you need to drill a hole to bolt it up to a bracket or something. this way the glass won't crack on you.:thumbsup:

yeah thats an idea... on my fenders I just layed an extra piece of mat to thicken it up but a thin piece of sheet metal would have been an idea.... maybe on the next set if I make more...

 

[mardyn]

Nice looking work there... another Idea might be to vacuum bag the part while it's curing to suck all the air pockets/bubbles outta' the resin... lots of trouble to go through just to make up a few parts though.

mardyn