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a7dz

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Fiberglass sugar scoops

I have heard so many times these can not be repaired that I get tired of it. It is not true and a lot of repairable parts are being discarded that should not be.

This left one I am going to use as an example was over trimmed a quarter inch and was cracked along the edge that bolts to the fender and lower fender valance.

The first thing I did was to sand the sugar scoop to see the damage and then laid up a ply of fiberglass mesh and resin as a base:

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Using this as a base I added plies of fiber glass cloth and resin to build up the edge and fill area where the cracks had been ground to a "V" on both sides. Giving the scoop the Strength needed to keep the scoop from cracking out again.

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Using a cut off wheel I rough trimmed the fiber glass.

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I final fit the sugar scoop using a disk on a two inch pad, Carefully scribing the scoop to the fender sanding the high points and then trying the fit again.

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Painted the car and sugar scoop, reassembled the car with these results:

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Great job! If/when you get bored you could pick up a bunch of those off EBay, Craigslist etc for cheap (since they are "not repairable" right?) repair them and sell them for some extra spending $$$

I couldn't appreciate the degree of damage in the before pics, but the final result looks pleasing--I bet you were satisfied as well!

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Very nice work, Jim! I let go of a couple of these on eBay this past year because they had one or more of the studs broken off. They came off my projects and I had to find replacements with good studs because I had no idea how to repair them. For the benefit of members with the same problem, what would the process be to replace the broken studs embedded in the fiberglass?

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