Afternoon all,

I've been trying to stick a piece of mesh on the inside of the grille in the nosecone - got some steel mesh, cut it to size, mixed up some resin, and ended up with resin drips all through the nose grilles, and no stuck mesh on the inside! Anyone else done this, if so, how?

I don't want the mesh looking like it's flapping behind the grille, I want it to look like it's attached to all the ribs.....

Cheers


Vince

Sikaflex some wood in side the front and screw the mesh to the wood

yup, four little squares of wood, one in each corner glued in nicely. glue gun or sikaflex.

then screw the mesh intot he wood. probably lighter than resin too!

I bent the mesh round the lip of the hole and glued it in with PU. Blocks of wood and a flat grille sounds easier.

thicken up your resin a bit more maybe? Then use a jam jar lid to fillet it?

I left a small lip and used some PVC edge trim around the aperture. Then stuck the grill material to it on the inside with PU. On the first attempt the PU didn't stick too well to the PVC trim so I added some aluminium tabs pushed under the edge trim and then bent over to hold the grill in place. PU'd the whole lot and the final result looks acceptable. See photos in archive under grill1,2,3.

Finished result:


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[Edited on 7/2/09 by f1ngers]

Good idea Graham

Andy

pu'ed it where it cant bee seen fronm the front then and left with somthing heavy on it until its gone off.

regards agriv8

[Edited on 7/2/09 by Agriv8]

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Originally posted by Andy W
Good idea Graham

Andy

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Leave four tabs on the mesh and bend it round the inside lip of the nosecone and then use PU to bond it.

Phil

i used sikaflex and glued it flat, waited for it too dry then hammered it around the edges- gently of course.

...sikaflex seems the general way- it sticks anything to anything. resin seems to form a smooth bond and doesnt really stick well.

I fixd my stainless mesh grill by glassing in 4 bolts and nyloc'ing on the grill

See this thread

i used ally flat bar with m6 rods through with ally tube over that to hide threaded bar
cheers
colin
Rescued attachment grill finished.JPG

Resin sticks reasonably well *if*
- you rough up the surface you are bonding to with some 80 grit paper
- you make sure the surface you are bonding to is really clean (wipe with acetone)

four 90 degree tabs made from ali with a rivnut set into each one. sikalfex the tabs to the nose cone then bolt mesh to the tabs using penny washers.

Nice and neat and easy to remove.