Making an Engine Bracket

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Thanks Wild thang. Welcome to the board.

I've finished the bracket. It just needs to be mounted and painted. Things do not always go as planned like usual. My non skid surface from the FRP mold did not really come out that great so I decided to just fair over it all with epoxy/cabosil. If I were to use the stuff again I would put two heavy layers of epoxy over it before laying up the glass. There were several areas were the glass was not saturated anough and left it blotchy. Another big mistake was putting duratec as a first layer in the mold. It did not adhere that well to the glass and I had to grind it off and re-primer with the duratec after a bit of fairing and sanding. I talked with Ringleader about this and he thinks that if I had let the duratec dry and then sanded it then it may have adhered to the epoxy OK. I bonded the two parts together with cabosil/epoxy. I still dont kow how much it weighs but I can move it around easily by myself. I'll take it to a scale and weigh it later. I'm done making molds for accessories on this boat right now but in the future if I do any big mold projects I will try working with gel coat and vinylester resin. The following pictures are for your enjoyment.













Strick