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Seat mold *PIC*
By:Jay Babina
Date: 8/12/2011, 11:03 am
In Response To: Strip: Seats (Bryan Hansel)

Here's my seat mold. I originally made one from forming a shape in sand, and filling it with plaster of paris. When my brother got his Valley Pintail. I liked the seat and made a mold of that. I covered it with seran wrap and filled it with plaster to make the basic mold. You'll notice that I have a iip on the front so that suspends the seat on an angle which is comfortable for me. My mold is also deeper than my seat actually is. I just trim the seat to the depth I want once it comes off the mold.

I use seran wrap for my release when I do a glass one. I tried mold release and damaged the seat and that's what the purple is - body filler to fair it out (again). my mold is plaster coated with 4 oz. glass and the weave filled. Real mold release will only work if the mold is mirror polished and absolutely perfectly smooth with not even a pin hole imperfection. Otherwise it may not release - take my word for it. Take your glass seat off the mold the next day because epoxy shrinks as it gets harder.

On my boats I have hip braces running from the deck to the floor and I use a bolt and finish washer/lock nut fastened into that to hold the seat much like commercial boats.

Messages In This Thread

Strip: Seats
Bryan Hansel -- 8/11/2011, 12:14 am
Re: Strip: Seats
Etiennemuller Muller Ireland -- 8/11/2011, 3:32 am
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Bryan Hansel -- 8/11/2011, 10:48 am
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scottbaxter -- 8/11/2011, 8:06 am
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Bryan Hansel -- 8/11/2011, 10:56 am
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scottbaxter -- 8/11/2011, 7:40 pm
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Mike Bielski -- 8/11/2011, 8:08 am
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Bryan Hansel -- 8/11/2011, 10:57 am
Re: Strip: Seats
Mike Bielski -- 8/11/2011, 11:34 am
Re: Strip: Seats *PIC*
Yostwerks -- 8/11/2011, 11:42 am
Re: Strip: Seats
Tony Ling -- 8/18/2011, 7:46 pm
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Glen Smith -- 8/18/2011, 7:55 pm
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StephenHJ -- 8/11/2011, 3:21 pm
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Robert N Pruden -- 8/11/2011, 7:39 pm
Mozaic Seat *PIC*
John Caldeira -- 8/11/2011, 11:45 pm
Re: Mozaic Seat
Bryan Hansel -- 8/12/2011, 9:49 am
Seat mold *PIC*
Jay Babina -- 8/12/2011, 11:03 am
Re: Seat mold
Bryan Hansel -- 8/12/2011, 11:56 am
Re: Seat mold *PIC*
Dan Caouette (CSFW) -- 8/12/2011, 12:13 pm
Re: Seat mold *PIC*
Dan Caouette (CSFW) -- 8/12/2011, 12:16 pm
Re: Seat mold
Jay Babina -- 8/12/2011, 2:10 pm
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Dan Caouette (CSFW) -- 8/12/2011, 2:42 pm
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Jay Babina -- 8/15/2011, 9:42 am
Re: Seat mold
Etiennemuller Muller Ireland -- 8/12/2011, 3:05 pm
Re: Seat mold
Dan Caouette (CSFW) -- 8/12/2011, 4:21 pm
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Bryan Hansel -- 8/12/2011, 1:18 pm
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Dan Caouette (CSFW) -- 8/12/2011, 2:43 pm
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Jay Babina -- 8/12/2011, 2:17 pm
Re: Seat mold
Robert N Pruden -- 8/15/2011, 6:24 pm