Australian Streamliner Bike Build

[Jon]

You got to be careful of those Kiwis don't you Sid, I think Nicholai is crossing the ditch next weekend, hope to catch up with him while he's over this way. If someone turns up wearing Mint Sauce for aftershave that will be him.

Got the bottom half good enough to glass today so put a layer of bidirectional cloth and epoxy on.

The Conning Tower, I mean wheel fairing was a little fiddly but came up ok in the end.

Sand the overlap area and a bit of hand finishing and hopefully first coat of glass on the top tomorrow.

Cheers
jon

[fastlammy]

Ill be over 6 to 10th of june, about 4 weeks to go! Does mint sause go with kangaroo!

[SPARKY]

 

[kiwi belly tank]

Bluddy Kiwi's! You know the drill Mate, don't let him see the Keel!!
  Sid.

[fastlammy]

Excellent Sid!! Ha Ha!

[Jon]

A month away, never was good with numbers...
The silver will be tarnished again by the time you get here Nicholai :/ I'm not polishing it again.

I took the keel around to a mate's place Sid, along with the pet sheep, you never know what a fast lamby would get up to.

Kangaroo goes good with everything Nicholai, best with Dark n Stormies though.

Cheers
jon

[Jon]

First layer finished:




This layer is 45/45 cloth, next layer will be 90/0 cloth with the joins top and bottom.

Not sure how many layers to do, thinking 4.

[Graham in Aus]

Jon,
       Sorry if I've missed this somewhere in your buld thread, but are you making a mould here, or is this the actual body? are you going to hollow out the foam or dissolve it or something??   

That shape is amazing, sort of organic somehow and defininately FAST! 

[Jon]

Hi Graham
This is the body, there wasn't going to be a mold as I've been told its nearly always easier to fix a fibreglass part than start again.

That was until Sid said they burnt the body shell off a Liner he worked on, can't fix that....

Now have to work out how to throw a mold off it and think about fire detection.

Thanks, hopefully it goes ok when it's done.

Cheers.
jon

[Tman]

There was a Don Vesco quote on here about fire. To paraphrase, "When do you know you are on fire? Trust me, you WILL know when you are on fire!"

[Stainless1]

Jon, fiberglass is its own fire detection.... you won't know till you are stopped just like in a metal body... but those little black floaty things in the air will be your major indication

[wobblywalrus]

There is a coating or similar to impart some fire resistance to fiberglas.  I do not know the details.  It was discussed with me a whole lotta years ago when I was considering making some fiberglas part.

[Tman]

There is a coating or similar to impart some fire resistance to fiberglas.  I do not know the details.  It was discussed with me a whole lotta years ago when I was considering making some fiberglas part.

It is a paint, Glen knows the name, Team Vesco uses it.

[DND]

Hi Graham

With all the hard work it took to build that clean body, it just might be a good idea to pull a mold off of it.

If you plan on running that class for a while, just in case just lay up a new shell in two halfs

Don

[Jon]

Thanks Guys, I'm making it up a go along so I'm very open to suggestions.

I think I'll;
Glass the whole body as one piece.
Mark it up and cut it into the different sections, slitting saw on the shell and Hotwire the foam.
Lap and tidy up the joints.
Fit it all together and finish the outside.
Take it apart and make molds of the separate body pieces.
Carve most of the foam out, some foam areas will be left in and sandwiched over to strengthen them, e.g. around  the tail extension insert.

This is all subject to change as I teach myself stuff, I've watched a few DVDs on building plane bodies and going to try and follow that.

This bodyshape is likely my only go at this, I'd like to give it a good go at making it decent.
jon