{"id":18,"date":"2012-11-13T20:54:14","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T20:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=18"},"modified":"2015-02-21T13:49:36","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T13:49:36","slug":"refurbishing-the-moulds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"Refurbishing the moulds"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Making a new top mould.<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/85ffe21bfadbd70eecb52846a680a80a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-487\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/85ffe21bfadbd70eecb52846a680a80a-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"85ffe21bfadbd70eecb52846a680a80a\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/85ffe21bfadbd70eecb52846a680a80a-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/85ffe21bfadbd70eecb52846a680a80a-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/85ffe21bfadbd70eecb52846a680a80a.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>First, I built a frame to hold the plug. Waxed it well and put on two coats of gelcoat in a colour I was unlikely to use for a hull (this makes things easier later)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/9919be69f430d92dcdb01d17403cbe98.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-519\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/9919be69f430d92dcdb01d17403cbe98-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"9919be69f430d92dcdb01d17403cbe98\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/9919be69f430d92dcdb01d17403cbe98-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/9919be69f430d92dcdb01d17403cbe98-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/9919be69f430d92dcdb01d17403cbe98.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Next the matting goes on. If I remember correctly 6 layers of CSM but the job is so boring I may have mis-remembered.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>The mould for the planing surface.<\/h2>\n<p>The mould for the planing surface was made from a plywood frame with a hardboard surface and was in a very sorry state. After several attempts at restoring it I decided to make it good enough to get one part out of it and make a new mould from that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/074456a094d63b73f15a88acce6a5b13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-241\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/074456a094d63b73f15a88acce6a5b13-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"074456a094d63b73f15a88acce6a5b13\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>The mould above has been filled with pounds of car body filler, painted and waxed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making a new top mould. First, I built a frame to hold the plug. Waxed it well and put on two coats of gelcoat in a colour I was unlikely to use for a hull (this makes things easier later) Next the matting goes on. If I remember correctly 6 layers of CSM but the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/?p=18\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Refurbishing the moulds<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c81-the-outlaws"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"andy","author_link":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":740,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomorbit.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}