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Here's some I've been puttering around with the last couple of days. Really should have taken some pictures along the way to show how I did it but here's the rundown.
Came up with a batch of plastic carry out food containers, the clear plastic lids have curves and edges with the rest of it flat pieces. Took a piece of metal rod and cut it to hang off the mounting tabs for the original side cover and started to cut and piece together the shapes I needed and held it together with masking tape. Once I got close I covered the entire "mold" in masking tape.
Having heard of using Titebond II construction adhesive and cloth fabric as a cheap alternative to fiberglass I covered the completed shell with Titebond to let it set up. Damn, that took WAY to long to set up? Soaked some strips of cloth in Titebond and shored up the top part where the rod attaches the cover and let it sit overnight.
Here's what it looks like. Was thinking you could build up Titebond and use it like Bondo but 24 hours between layers makes a longer job out of a shorter one. I'm going to redo this with some other material as a base and go with 'Glass and Bondo. The whole thing needs to be bigger and the base "mold" needs better attention as well. Have a better idea on creating curves and rolls, we'll see how that goes.
Anyhow, here's what you could do for next to nothing especially when there's next to nothing to do. Right now there's about 2 bucks worth of rod, glue and masking tape in the project, how can you lose?
Came up with a batch of plastic carry out food containers, the clear plastic lids have curves and edges with the rest of it flat pieces. Took a piece of metal rod and cut it to hang off the mounting tabs for the original side cover and started to cut and piece together the shapes I needed and held it together with masking tape. Once I got close I covered the entire "mold" in masking tape.
Having heard of using Titebond II construction adhesive and cloth fabric as a cheap alternative to fiberglass I covered the completed shell with Titebond to let it set up. Damn, that took WAY to long to set up? Soaked some strips of cloth in Titebond and shored up the top part where the rod attaches the cover and let it sit overnight.
Here's what it looks like. Was thinking you could build up Titebond and use it like Bondo but 24 hours between layers makes a longer job out of a shorter one. I'm going to redo this with some other material as a base and go with 'Glass and Bondo. The whole thing needs to be bigger and the base "mold" needs better attention as well. Have a better idea on creating curves and rolls, we'll see how that goes.
Anyhow, here's what you could do for next to nothing especially when there's next to nothing to do. Right now there's about 2 bucks worth of rod, glue and masking tape in the project, how can you lose?
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