Paint is light and looks good. But no sense in arguing over this, as there will always be those people that just have to show off what material it is pretending to be made of.
actually wasnt arguing at all. just replying to riff42 about 20lbs of gelcoat. simply stating that there will be weight from either gelocat or paint. paint can get pretty heavy from primer/base/clear.
Deetech, Bootlid looks great.Don’t worry about negative people who say their own work is quote “shxt” anyway!
The look on the outside is very different from the actual quality of the construction.
Hey Tet…didn’t we have some fun today! 
Agreed, good show! Now prepared for a bunch of vendors to start calling to bring samples and check out the manufacturing facility. :rolleyes:
The quality of the part is much better than any of the mass produced crap on the market today.I have seen and repaired enough of that rubbish to know the only carbon part is the top single layer.Most of it is 90% fibreglass hand laid or chopper gun rubbish.
Ok, very cool. So this is full carbon or carbon/kevlar? A balanced layup infused with VE or epoxy?
I agree that there are numerous ways to build a bootlid, a hood etc, ways which produce a superior quality in strength and appearance, ways that offer just the appearance and not the strenght of an airplane wing for example:p and ways that offer crap appearance and strength :o .
In the end it’s all up to the customers’ needs and wallet. What’s the point in producing the best product in appearance and strenght when there isn’t a market to buy it? I bet many of us have caught ourselves talking with potential customers trying to explain why for example this bootlid costs this much and not cheaper and many of them doesn’t seem to understand the cost, the hours spent, the labour etc, imagine if you were trying to sell them a state of the art bootlid…:eek: :eek: :eek: In my opinion the best way(when possible) is to give the customer the option of choice, the customer decides the level of strenght and the level of appearance and pays according to his needs.
How true that is.
We get “I can get a bonnet of trade me (NZ’s Ebay) for $500 and you want $3000 for the same thing”. Then we try to explain that the cheap one is not 100% carbon, floppy, weighs 5 times more and will yellow. They don’t care as they are after the cheapest “carbon” bonnet.
But then there are those that need it for a race car and will pay for the lightest and finish is not important, to a point, as it gets covered by stickers (lighter, cheaper and easyier to change than paint).
One needs a number of techniques that can be used depending on the projects requirements.
yep Moke, it is all about the individual customer. Some are willing to pay $1500 to $2000 for a hood, others want it for $350.
If you can crank them out fast, offer no warranty, and sell them for $400 a pop. Only problem there is your companies good name. Something like that I would market under a different name. Heavy azz csm, 1 gallon of resin, one layer of cf 6oz hood. no vacuum bagging. Let them pay $400 for that then if you don’t have to tie your name to it. I try to stay away from doing deals like that though. I hate fiberglass, especially csm and i prefer not to use polyester resin.
Ask those guys how it is they can claim to own a cf hood that is only 10% cf? It’s really a resin glass hood. LOL.