choppinczech
Well-Known Member
Around last Thanksgiving I started working on my deck lid.
The first step was to lay it out and add brackets with clecos so every time I took it off and on, it goes back in the same place.
Then made a backbone to hold the lid's shape. Flipped over, it supports the lid during all the work ahead.
And cut.
Then made a steel brackets to hold the BMW trunk hinges and latch.
Then started this drop in mold. It was held in place with the same cleco holes made before.
After weeks of work, it ended up like this.
With the mold fastened in place and everything flipped over it was time to lay up.
The mold popped out much easier than I thought it would. I was expecting a fight.
The first step was to lay it out and add brackets with clecos so every time I took it off and on, it goes back in the same place.
Then made a backbone to hold the lid's shape. Flipped over, it supports the lid during all the work ahead.
And cut.
Then made a steel brackets to hold the BMW trunk hinges and latch.
Then started this drop in mold. It was held in place with the same cleco holes made before.
After weeks of work, it ended up like this.
With the mold fastened in place and everything flipped over it was time to lay up.
The mold popped out much easier than I thought it would. I was expecting a fight.