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Custom Hood: Screening
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The screen is inserted in the openings and secured with a fiberglass ‘paste’. |
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| Screening It |
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Pic 1 Take another look at how there is a gap between the hood skin and bracing. I figured that I could slide screen into this 'slot' and secure it. (I'm
going to refer to this as the hood slot).
Pic 2 I drilled a series of holes around the perimeter of the opening. Once the sceen was slid into the hood slot, I would then secure it with dollops
of fiberglass.
Pic 3 You can not simply slide the screen into the hood slot. There is an adhesive that has to be scraped away first. Once this is done and the screen
slid in you will see that you need to pack something between the brace and the hood skin so the screen fits flush. I had some green scub pads. They worked fine.
Note: The screen came from one of those wire mesh trash cans I found in the office supply section at Wal-Mart.
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Pic 4 Using a smaller metal ruler to 'stuff' scraps of green pad betwen the brace and the screen. I used this same ruler to scrape out the any adhesive in the
hood slot that interferred with emplacing the screen.
Pic 5 I used fiberglass resin and silica to make a 'paste'.
Pic 6 The silica is fumed silicon dioxide. Because of its inert nature, it has been used in food such as kethcup as well as in shampoo and some cosmetics.
When mixed into liquid resin, it functions as a resin thickener (flow control agent) and sometimes as an anti-settling, anti-caking agent. Its applications are many, including
thickening paint, dyes in the screen printing industry, epoxy, polyester, urethane, water, hand soap and shampoo. It is a versatile thickening agent that has even been used to
"thicken" fresh water and sea water. Go figue! I just happened to have some on hand. Believe it or not, baby powder would have worked just fine for this.
I mixed up some 'paste' and after securing the screen with the green pads, forced the paste throgh the holes in Pic 4 and into the screen. It has held up for a year now.
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