Alice had spoken to the nice people at the Stuart Pease factory and asked if we could get hold of some fibre and resin to make our own FRP, and basically they said they’d make up a kind of goody bag, consisting of all the stuff that we needed for the process. Much appreciated.
So I printed off a badly worded AutoRoute map directing us to the factory, prayed my car still worked after spending 2 weeks under a pile of snow, and picked up Louis.
I’m not sure if we got there by magic or my superior driving (which involves going round round-a-bouts more than once), but I still can’t really believe we found the right place. They were really helpful and sold us everything we needed. For £35 we got:
- a bucket of general resin
- a bucket of red gel coat resin
- some catalyst
- some (about 2m squared) fibreglass
- some wax to stop the gel coat sticking to the mould
- some wax fillets for sharp corners inside moulds
- a metal roller and some paint brushes
- and more buckets.
We were supposed to get some acetone to clean the brushes but in our excitement it must have been forgotten. Something we’d later regret but it was ok for just the design stage.
In the studio we began experimenting with what we had, and casting on what we could find.
