Quick update. Molded the first hatch skin. Came out ok. Had some air bubbles at the bottom of the lam. Any that are flexy will get ground and filled. I think the way i let a cabosil thickened coat kick and came over the top later contributed to this. Prob that and the fast hardenenr. Ill be more patient and wait for slow this next time. Ill get some paste wax too. I had to take two sides off the mold until i could get enough purchase on the skin to break it from the mold. Well see if wax helps it release. If not, my modulaur mold worked as planned. Results of the first one are pretty good. A little work and it should clean up well. This peice will most likely become the removable rear passenger footwell cover, and ill try and do a better job making the one for the front hatch lid. Then one more big skin for the rear drybox and i can cut the mold smaller and make molds for the side box tops and the front and rear bulkhead boxes.
Bottom hatch lid skin in the mold and in the vac bag.
The form looks pretty good. Ill try form better next time but this is usable with a little work.
Still not really sure this is better than tacking strips of wood on the edge but well see. Pretty commited to the process at this point.
I also got my engel deep blue 80 cooler. With a bit of creative engineering i should be able to fit this in the rowers drybox. Looks well built and supposedly holds ice a really long time. I hope so considering it costs about 4x what an igloo or coleman does
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