 All right, I don't generally get any Fiberglassing on camera because it's kind of a messy operation and Can't really stop once it started and All right, so anyway, I'm gonna try to get this boat pedal repair And I'm just setting up the camera and I'm gonna leave it there whatever it gets it gets And the first thing I'm doing right now is just mixing up some resin and this Is enough hardener for one gallon of resin Correct amount You do have to get The ratios of that mix pretty good So if you're not good at eyeballing that kind of thing It's definitely better to to weigh it measure it in some way So I've got a crack in this pedal and I'm gonna put fiberglass on this one too before it cracks You know partly so the match but also just you know, so the both be be stronger Apparently I mean this one looks like it's gotten a lot thinner just from people's feet rubbing around it Getting thinner over time. I need this to stay up. Well, I do this Can't hold up my foot Well, I'll try to keep my foot out of the way, but I need my foot here to Hold the pedal hold this pedal up and then hopefully that one will come up more easily Just dunking some fiberglass into my resin here Gross is dripping everywhere. I don't want to drip on my leg. So I'm gonna try to let it drip off I have noticed that the last few times I've gotten resin It's been Slow hardening So I think I have lots of time not dripping don't drip on me of course This does harden fast Whenever I do something where it wraps around a bunch of times the top layer Part there was holding doesn't have any resin on it the resin from below is probably going to soak through and get this top part wet I'll do a bit extra and again, don't drop. Oh, I just dripped on my leg all right The resin is one of the more disgusting materials I've ever used in my life It's like This this actually seems pretty thin usually it's like the consistency of honey and It is corrosive Not water soluble. It does not come off easily at all like you need to get paint thinner instead, which I do not have at the moment so I really don't want to get it on Try to get all the bubbles out of this It's a little bit tricky because I wrapped it around a bunch of times So if any bubbles come down at the bottom and maybe Going through several layers and whatever But if I push it out to the side it should stretch it sideways kind of like a chinese finger trap and help get any bubbles out Yeah, just like that, right? I also have the burning coconut husk behind me to help ward off any Mosquitoes that might show up like that one right there because you really don't want to be Wacking away at bugs while using this gross stuff So I wouldn't necessarily call this a fiberglass lesson you know I I've done this a lot to the point where Kind of cut a lot of corners, but I know what corners I can cut and I know I can I know what I can get away with like I've used material If you're doing something fiberglass for the first time You know kind of look at a tutorial that tells you how to how to do it for idiots Follow it some strands kind of sticking up Sand those off Okay, so when you get to a point where it's good Uh, it's important not to keep messing with it too much extra resin on the surface I get this For some reason like mosquitoes are attracted to the resin I don't know if it's the smell of the resin or if it's just like I notice it more because I have to stay in one spot and can't fight off bugs anyway The bugs do not like the smoke from a coconut husk It's almost as good as some tobacco Yes, tobacco as far as I know people started smoking because it gets It's rid of bugs stay there. I'm gonna dip this into my resin That's like to put it on there without a big mess a big mess already Trying to make sure I don't move the panel enough So that cracked spot Open and close all over open open closes a little bit Maybe some resin will get in there and help glue it shut but for the most part I just want I want it to stay stationary Okay, mosquito, what are you doing get out of here? We've got two more pieces of fiberglass that I can put on I think I need to put those on later. They just stay just like that. How do I get that to happen? All right, now I just leave it for I don't know if you are Okay, I found a stick that'll hold the pedal in the right alignment Now I need to not touch it for I don't know a couple hours Maybe an hour. I don't know and then maybe in an hour or two I'll put those other two pieces on just to reinforce it further so it won't break So this is a pedal boat here Let's zoom out and see what we're working on. It's got pedals on both sides Those pedals are stronger plus they've got PVC pipes around them to protect them from the sun Yeah, let's zoom out This was the first pedal boat I made here And it's held up really well actually It's pretty old at this point and disheina took it over and Got some solar panels for it and a motor back there and there's some batteries down inside one of the pontoons And it works really well. It's pretty cool actually And it even uses the same pontoon mold as my bigger boat here These ones are just longer Man, look how nice this this paint job came out. Obviously if you get close you can tell it's like done by hand without any real care, but man I kind of like that. I like that it looks rough up close But uh, it's kind of thing that you look at from far away. Anyway, man, I love how it came out Maybe we should put tiger stripes on this boat so when she comes back. No, I'm not putting that kind of effort forget it