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[omega3000]

Thought i would share how my project on the £1.04p bumper progresses , so here we have the said bumper looking in a sorry state .. split both bottom corners 





So opened up the cracks and made 2 support brackets inside and firbre glassed the brackets over for more strength ..



Sanded back the surrounding edges then taped over the front of the crack and filled with fibre glass from the back forcing fibre glass through to the tape ...



Will wait till this has hardened and apply more fibre glass front and back then sand back ... more to come 

[martin42]

looking good there EMD 

[Del Boy]

I like to see a bit of body repair going on  .

[omega3000]

Soon many hours of sanding to be done but will be worth it in the end , dont think ill be going right back to bare surface just make a good key and use some etching primer 

[Del Boy]

Soon many hours of sanding to be done but will be worth it in the end , dont think ill be going right back to bare surface just make a good key and use some etching primer 

I hate sanding  .

[omega3000]

Soon many hours of sanding to be done but will be worth it in the end , dont think ill be going right back to bare surface just make a good key and use some etching primer 

I hate sanding  .

Me too  But all in the prep work , not done anything this big before but the small bits i have done turned out ok as long as those pesky flies keep off it 

[symes]

Looks good so far mate-sanding is a right ball ache - but keep at it mate-no turning back now

[jonny2112]

Looking good pal 
Can't wait to see how you get on 

[omega3000]

Not much more done accept for some extra fibre glassing ..

Here underneath both corners were split as well so metal brackets drilled bolted and fibre glassed over inside , now with the outside prepped its time to apply more fibre glass over the bolted cracked area ..



Fibre glassed over , as this wont be seen ill roughly shape around the glass then spray over best i can ..



Now to wait for curing , taking longer than expected to harden but this cold weather dont help 



More to come ....

[dbug]

Keep it up Steve

[cem_devecioglu]

good work Emd
 
only important factor, dont hurry

[Mr.OmegaMan]

Coming along nicely there, Keep it up 

[Webby the Bear]

nice one steve. watching this one with interest as I need to sort my bodywork.... and the car's 

[omega3000]

Thanks all  Next stage will be to sand all the surface filler down which im thoroughly looking forward to  Never used etch primer so not sure if this will do the job on this ... ill ask in the shop before i buy it or maybe someone on here can put me in the right direction about this etch primer stuff 

[cem_devecioglu]

Thanks all  Next stage will be to sand all the surface filler down which im thoroughly looking forward to  Never used etch primer so not sure if this will do the job on this ... ill ask in the shop before i buy it or maybe someone on here can put me in the right direction about this etch primer stuff 

etching primer must be this so called plastic primer and its important to use it first..  than normal primer..
 
I have doubt about those fracture areas   if you fill them with bondo(after normal primer sanded ) and if the fractures move, paint can fracture so
 
imo use plastic primer -sand 360-400- normal primer-sand (500-600 grid)- tiny layers of bondo (not whole at a time) - than prime it again