The Fiberglass Manual: A Practical Guide to the use of Glass Reinforced Plastics | 
 enlarge | Author: Keith Noakes
Publisher: The Crowood Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 404803
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 11.6 x 8.3 x 0.5
ISBN: 1861265751
Dewey Decimal Number: 745
EAN: 9781861265753
ASIN: 1861265751
Publication Date: June 2003
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Product Description
Glass reinforced plastic or fiberglass is a composite material made from strands of glass and liquid resin. This versatile material is used in the construction of cars, trucks, motorcycles, boats and aircraft. Fiberglass is an easy material for the DIY modeler or repairer to use. Written with the layman in mind, this book covers: Materials, tools and equipment; Health and safety; Repairing existing components; Modifying and strengthening existing moldings; Designing and making patterns; Making moulds; Wet lay-up technique; Curing times and methods; Releasing compounds from moulds; and Mould-less techniques.
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 Impractical Guide... October 29, 2007
TOTALLY MISLEADING title.
This book is NOT a manual or practical guide.
If you want to learn how to do fibreglassing, BUY SOMETHING ELSE.
 bad how-to-do book July 14, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
although a great academic thesis on fiberglass and all its theory and its compositional attributes of high polymerisation... bla bla bla.. OK I was lost too throught the entire book. This is for someone that masters plastics and wants that higher edge. For beginners it really dont tell you how to start, how to proceed and what really is that you looking for.
 needs more how to May 18, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
If your just starting out this is not much help. but combined with other books it can be very heplful.
Title is totally misleading April 7, 2007
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
The title for this book is not the correct one. I wanted to buy a book which not only gave me an introduction of the field but gave details and hints of methods. The book gives you a very very general picture of EVERYTHING it talks about. Does not show anything practical except the general idea and theory of the wet lay up and other methods. FIBERGLASS & COMPOSITE MATERIALS - by Forbes Aird is a superior book in this aspect of showing methods, steps, pictures of steps, detailed descriptions of how the shop should be on all aspects from garage shop to industrial size shop and most importantly gives you direct advice and hints based on experience and examples. If the title changed it would be a good but outdated book although I doubt it will be corrected since nobody would buy it.
 Fiberglass May 8, 2000
40 out of 69 found this review helpful
Very informative. I'm planning on building a house and some parts of the roof are very curvy. I needed to learn how to make and use fiberglass so I could make forms for the curved section. Before I read this book, I didn't know the first thing about Fiberglass. Now I'm getting very good at it.
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