How To Mold Fiberglass & Composites. 1 of 8

[EasternMerchant]

I want to know.... once fiberglass has cured, will it pose to threat? I have a Class B pleasure way Camper VAN with a hull mostly comprised of fiberglass and I live out of it 365 a year because I am a journalist that travels on the road constantly. Are they any long term health hazards living in a Fiberglass Structure that's constantly heated by the sun during the day and eroded by external elements?

[Sugarsail1]

everybody dies. Have fun. Don't stress.

[sschoon86]

Any fibrous material can cause lung issues. Go to China and visit a textile mill where there might be cotton or other fiber s floating all around, and you will see a high respiratory disease rate. But do people tell you not to sew, because the cotton fiber might irritate your lungs? No they do not. FIBERGLASS IS DANGEROUS, but if you wear the high-quality protective gear, you will be fine. 200,000 people die each year from medical malpractice... better quit going to the doctor!!

[StonyRC]

Yes, there are risks to health when working fibreglass into products BUT they are well known and basic protective equipment is sufficient. Fibreglass and GRP products are ubiquitous - just try avoiding them! Almost everything in Western society poses SOME health risk. You have to be realistic rather than paranoid.

[lbyeow]

Hi expert,

Great video.

I have 2 question,

1. what is the ratio of pigment to mix with resin? Do we have max spec or ratio for it?

2. Will the pigment added affect the total strength of the Fiberglass?

Thanks

[AniMalta85]

Duuude. I was going to start molding fiberglass in order to make cafe racer seats. HELL NO. I rather have a few hundred dollars less in my pocket than die

[MrBangout]

you know what.... you are all right about the safety measures that should be taken but if they dont use the proper safety tools then thats their fault....

[hillbrowjhb]

MrBangout, Please explain by what you mean the right tools. It dos not matter what mask tools etc you use when , cutting , sanding or grinding fibreglass , as the dust go every where in the working area, and your workshop is contaminated. Fibreglass is plain and simple a highy dangerous material, that why it is regarded as such a huge cancer causeing healt risk. People used to think that Asbestos could be worked with safely, it now proven beyond doubt that it cannot. Fibreglass is dangerous.

[mykeydread2000]

@hillbrowjhb

dude! there is dust everywhere, in the street, in your house, all hazardous. Time to calm down me thinks ; )

[hillbrowjhb]

@mykeydread2000 OK so you prefer to ignore the obvious healt hazards connected with fibre glass , when sanding ,cutting, or disturbing in any way. So we can assune that goverments around the world who put a total ban on asbestos were wrong in doing so, as we are breathing in hazardous dust every day . I take it you have no problem whatsoever risking your health and would find nothing wrong with working with asbestos. , sanding , cutting etc whilst wering less than useless face mask on.

[bapfontein]

Anyone who works with fibreglass and claims it is not a dangerous man made material is a fool of the highest order. Its time to stop pretending that fibreglass is safe. Fibreglass is now known as man made Asbestos. People who work with it are being kept in the dark , regarding the fact, that fibreglass is probally more dangerous to work with than Asbestos. No person sane of mind would work with asbestos material, so why do people take huge risks with their health , working with fibreglass?.

[41point2]

I agree.

To Answer Fallow the money.

I don't think its as bad as Asbestos and it is such a great product for manufacturing.

I wish Government would get serious about environmental safety in the work place. But that cause money and we are all competing against the Chinese, whom as we know will kill and destroy the bodies of those who object to government policy.

Never met a car repair guy that lived beyond 60, but I hear they are out there.

[Smonjirez]

put on: gasmask

problem solved =/

[nUaSvAy]

3M makes a good ventilator mask for about 30 bucks. Fully enclosed, protects from : dust, paint, chemical fumes, etc. DO NOT WORK WITHOUT A MASK!

[hillbrowjhb]

A mask might help stop you breathing in fibre glass particles , but what the point if your work shop is contaminated . When you sand , grind or cut fibreglass millons of dangerous particles are released into the work shop , All work surfaces , benches , tools , equipment etc will have dangerous fibre glass particles on them , even the very clothes you wear. Just as their is no safe way to work with asbestos , their is no safe way to sand , grind or cut fibreglass. Fibreglass equals Asbestos

[riseingstur]

Why are so many people who work with fibre glass so blind to the dangers of working with such man made materials. Fibreglass particles are beyond doubt as dangerous as Asbestos particles. The very fact that only two consumer products in the USA, , Fibreglaa insulation, and cigaretes, are required by law to print warnings about the risk to ones health when useing them. Does this not tell you something about how highly dangerous to your health and others fibre glass particles are.

[richarddale76]

@riseingstur Bondo/fillers are also just as bad. when they hit the surface of you lungs they rehydrate and clog blood vessels in them. Plus anything containing cement. Silicosis is just as big a killer as asbestos in parts of italy and spain due to mining and making of ceramic products

[riseingstur]

@richarddale76 I am not aware of Bondfillers , maybe here in the UK we call them by a diffrent name, what eactaly are they used for ?. Yes totally agree with you that antthing to do with cement dust is also dangerous. A family  member of mine recently died from asbestos related llung cancer. His trade was a plaster and the plaster and cement contained asbestos as it acted as a binding agent. Asbestos is now banned in the UK from plaster and cement products. Goverment p1 contd

[riseingstur]

@riseingstur contd 2. knew for decades that asbestos was a killer , but anytime anyone raised concerns they called them scaremongers who had no evedence. The reason they did not act and ban it fifty or sixty years ago was , firstl they had no alternative and it was a multi millon dollar industry. The same with fibre glass particulary as regards roof insulation loose fibre glass . This industry is a billon dollar industry alll over the world, and to ban it and tell the truth that contd

[riseingstur]

@riseingstur p3.would destroy a billon dollar industry, and the nightmare of what to do with the trillions of tons now in the roof spaces and lofts of homes. A leading advocate in the USA who has spent decades in the USA calling for a total ban on fibre glass products , said that fibre glass was man made asbestos, that how dangerous his research proved it was. For detailed information ... GOOGLE.. ( THE HEALTH RISK OF EXPOSURE TO FIBRE GLASS PARTICLES). help spread the truth .

[hillbrowjhb]

Why is their no information on how dangeorous to one health is includd in this video.. Fibreglass in all it forms and uses is a highly dangerous man made fibre. Fibreglass insulation as used in loft insulation is regarded by some research as nothing more than man made abestos, as it has the very same effect if one is exposed to the fibres. Fibreglass insulation and mating when disturbed releases millons of tiny glass particles which breathed into the lungs has the same effect as asbestos.

[Ersicurezza]

cause normal people usually have mask -.- noob!

[hillbrowjhb]

Ersicurezza, the mask worn by many who work with dangerous fibre glass , are in most cases are less than worthless. When sanding or cutting fibre glass , millions of small particles are released and contamanite every thing they come into contact with. If the work place is contaminated , then their is no way to avoid breathing the dangerous cancer causeing  particles , its impossible.

[xenon031]

can someone please tell me how to know if the hardener or resin that i got from a local store is real or just a fake one...i live i Philippines so i have doubts about the material that i got.....

please i heed help..thanks

[JoelThedude4u]

mix it see if it hardens!

[erikinhawaii]

Just try it, take something and sample with it. Take your buddy's car and try building a whale tail on the back...good luck

[camelspidertoe]

name of song?

[firelordXXX]

the song is made from garageband, it's a synth

[roboticnoface]

nice!

[aurrasinger]

Wow, big 80's flashback! Thanks for posting!