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    This is fantastic work. Good from scratch build.

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    Thanks guys, please have a look at my fiber glass tutorial in the Tips, Tricks, and Tutorials section on this forum. Soon I will improve the tutorila with more and better pictures and I will add a tutorial on making molds.

    It's time to finish the fibre glass mold. The most difficult part right now to saw the mold under an angle of 20 degrees. For this I made another mold. The base of the sawingmold has to be 90 degrees.



    Now add the sides of the sawingmold.



    The glue will be dry in a couple of hours. Before I start sawing I will add some scres in the mold. So I will put in the MDF fiber glass mold and secure it there. A sawblade will be guided by the opening in the sides of the sawing mold.



    I should and up with a nice 20 degrees angle like in this sketch



    The last job will be glueing the fiber glass mold onto a piece of MDF and finish the surfae with polyurethane resin. I will use this mold a least four times, maybe even 6 times. I will have to see what looks better, 4 or 6 airintakes.

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    Ok the thing is ready for sawing.



    Here we go.





    The last bit has to be done outside the sawing mold.



    Almost ready.




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    That looks great. A perfect cut.
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    Maybe I'm just dumb (ill admit that I've never really been around this sort of thing when i was growing up) but i find that method you used ingenious. I would have NEVER thought up such a wonderful sawing contraption. +rep for being masterful.
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    Very nice! +rep

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    I really like the idea's you have to build this case, also because it's completely different than alumaxx by al those wooden templates and fiberwork.
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    Looks great as usual, +rep Grats on getting featured

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    Thanks guys. The mold was finished today.



    so I tried making the first polyester airintake. Tried..... The result was not good enough. Had some problems with the fiber glass and the shape of the mold. I already have the solution, but I need to paint this mdf part three times with the polyurethane before I can have another try. The solution is a mdf disk that I can put in the hole and that will keep the fiber glass in place.

    Just to give you guys an impression off what it will look like I Photoshopped a picture off the mold.



    So you will see these intakes on both sides off the case ( left and right side )
    I hope I can post a picture of a finished polyester airintake this week.

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    After the small problem I'm ready to give it another try.



    Time to put on the latex gloves again and mix the resin. I used more layers of fiber glass this time, because it has to be much stronger this time and the outside isn't important, because this polyester part will only be the mold that I will use to make the final product. I need a negative.



    It's important that the polyester part is a perfect negative of the MDF mold. So I used a MDF disk to push the fiber glass in the corners and keep it there untill the resin is cured.



    Just before the resin had cured I pulled out the disk with the hook. I had some problems this time getting the polyester off from the MDF mold. Drilled a hole in the middle to let the air in, but that wasn't enough to do the job. My old man had a great idea, put the mold with the polyester in the freezer and yes it worked The polyester came of without any problem.



    This is the final mold I need. This polyester mold I will use to create the four intakes.

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