Some of you old school fiberglass and paint guys might think I am nuts but I have to say this works and it works well.
On my 1986 Notchie I have two large gouges in the leading edge of the front hood. The front end of the car got pushed back a little from the previous owner hitting something. So when they opened the hood the screw heads holding the front facia on gouged the front edge of the hood. Not pretty, well I straighthened out the front and realigned everything now I am going to fill those gouges before it gets a new paint job.
My filler of choice without whipping out the glass fiber, resin and bondo? Baking soda and CA (cynoacrolate) or commonly known as super glue.
This method is proven, what I will do is make a little dam across the front of the leading edge of the hood with masking tape. Basically making a container out of the gouge and masking tape to hold baking soda. I will sprinkle in that space about 1/8 inch thick layer of baking soda making sure it gets into the glass fibers hanging out from the gouge. Then using THIN CA glue. It has to be thin like water. I use Zap thin. I will run drops of glue along the edge of the baking soda letting it wick into the baking soda. WIth all of that surface area of the baking soda grains and I think there might be a slight chemical reation the glue will kick off instantly and harden the baking soda(sometimes with a little puff of smoke, it will get hot and burn you if you do this on your skin). Then I will add another layer until I fill the gouge. The finished product is hard as a rock. It can be sanded, filed, painted and it stays in place. How do I know??? I have worked as a model maker for quite some time. For a living I make models and prototypes of consumer products. These models go to retailers to sell that years product or get shots for catalogs, or if it is a prototype engineers will use my models to test concepts. I work for a fishing reel company now. All I do is make models of fishing reels. Anyway before the fishing reel company I worked for a model shop that did work for anyone who had the cash. One of our clients owned an airplane that they were retstoring. My boss agreed to restore the fiberglass engine cowlings. So we filled all of the holes and cracks of these cowlings with baking soda and superglue and then painted them. After two years of flying to altitudes of 10,000 + feet everyday the finish still looks like new.
We also used it as a super adhesive. it will glue together almost anything if you don't mind a big lumpy glue joint. In most cases when we used it to glue stuff it was an inside joint that you couldn't see.
I fixed my wifes side mirrior with baking soda and ca. She toar her mirror off at the bank. She basically pulled the three inmolded bolt studs out of the mirror and left the studs in the car door. I took the studs off, put them back where they were in the mirrior, packed baking soda around the studs, wicked in the glue and bolted the mirror back on. One year later it is still there after being frozen and heated and wet and ratted down the road.

So Baking soda and CA Glue (superglue) the thin watery stuff, super filler, and adhesive. try it it is amazing I have engineers at work who are baffled.

That is good stuff to know.

I thought I was the only advocate of this on the forum. Been using this method for years (it's a common way to patch tupperware on motorcycles.)

Found a good cheap source--this is a really good price http://item.express.ebay.co...010QQcmdZExpressItem

Also I've found that the thick c/a doesn't work very well for patching, get the thinner stuff.

[This message has been edited by Brian Lamberts (edited 04-15-2007).]

This makes a very strong filler and is quite effective. Do this in a well ventilated area and don't breathe the fumes.

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1986 SE 350 V8

quote Originally posted by tesmith66: This makes a very strong filler and is quite effective. Do this in a well ventilated area and don't breathe the fumes.

Until the very end...

[This message has been edited by F-I-E-R-O (edited 04-15-2007).]