Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricators

A typical week, in the words of people in the job

1. 01Release air bubbles and smooth seams, using rollers.
2. 02Select precut fiberglass mats, cloth, and wood-bracing materials as required by projects being assembled.
3. 03Inspect, clean, and assemble molds before beginning work.
4. 04Apply lacquers and waxes to mold surfaces to facilitate assembly and removal of laminated parts.
5. 05Repair or modify damaged or defective glass-fiber parts, checking thicknesses, densities, and contours to ensure a close fit after repair.
6. 06Mask off mold areas not to be laminated, using cellophane, wax paper, masking tape, or special sprays containing mold-release substances.
7. 07Trim cured materials by sawing them with diamond-impregnated cutoff wheels.
8. 08Bond wood reinforcing strips to decks and cabin structures of watercraft, using resin-saturated fiberglass.
9. 09Apply layers of plastic resin to mold surfaces prior to placement of fiberglass mats, repeating layers until products have the desired thicknesses and plastics have jelled.
10. 10Check all dies, templates, and cutout patterns to be used in the manufacturing process to ensure that they conform to dimensional data, photographs, blueprints, samples, or customer specifications.
11. 11Spray chopped fiberglass, resins, and catalysts onto prepared molds or dies using pneumatic spray guns with chopper attachments.
12. 12Mix catalysts into resins, and saturate cloth and mats with mixtures, using brushes.

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