The best primer on fibreglass around. Although not confining itself solely to boats this informative manual covers all the techniques of hand laying up glassfibre laminates and mouldings. This book covers an amazing length of ground and the home fibreglasser will find that any question that he or she may have with this medium will be answered within it pages.
Hardback  160 pages

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Introduction
1. How GRP was Born
2. Fabrication techniques
3. Glass Fibre Materials
4. Resins
5. Accelerators, Catalysts and Curing
6. Other Materials
7. Quantities Required
8. Tools and Equipment
9. Design in GRP
10. Making Mould
11. Hand Lay-ups
12. Moulded Shapes
13. Casting, Potting and Encapsulating
14. GRP 'at Home'
15. Transparent and Translucent Panels
16. Tanks in GRP
17. Garden Pools and Fishponds
18. GRP in Modelmaking
19. GRP Hulls
20. Sandwich Construction
21. Sheathing Hulls
22. GRP Car Bodies
23. Car Body Repairs
24. Repairs to GRP
25. Faults, Causes and Remedies
Appendix 1  How Thick?
Appendix 2  How Strong?
Appendix 3 How Heavy?
Appendix 4  Resistance to Chemicals, etc
Appendix 5 Aging Effect
Appendix 6  Thermal Properties of GRP Laminates
Appendix 7. Osmosis
Appendix 8. Resin Technology
Appendix 9. Deflections and Stresses in Sandwich Beams
 Glossary and Index