Posted by chriscase on Sunday, October 07, 2007 at 10:56:31 :
In Reply to: Looking good Chris! posted by RSBuc in Toronto on Sunday, October 07, 2007 at 08:24:21 :
Composite, epoxy and powdered Aluminum. It's called 'cold molded' in the sculpture world. Something like 97% aluminum by weight? (I hope I wrote down my formula). So much aluminum that I didn't need a ground for the headlights to work. Though my ohmmeter said I would...
I made the mold from bondo. But it shrunk- enough to distort things. So I had to do more work to it. Plus, I drilled and counterbored for screws with nuts. My big, dumb, hands didn't want to start screws inside of the buckets. And I didn't think the material would like those fine screw threads. Though the 5/16" coarse threads seem real solid for bolting to the fender.