09-10-2013, 04:33 PM
(09-10-2013, 04:06 PM)Rippthrough Wrote: Can't get good enough adhesion without stripping them back to bare steel, drilling the studs to seperate the two halves and having them sandblasted and the surface primed, tried it before.
Then you need 2 jigs to keep them lined up whilst it sets, some way of keeping some compression on the resin, etc. Bit of a pain in the arse, easier just to make them solid.
Your right the condition of used mounts is a issue, I know when I took mine off they were in such a sorry state I didn't even bother trying I `simply welded them up but I now have access to a cleaning tank, now sure what's in it but it nasty stuff (a mate does powder coating and the tank cleans off old rust, dirt , paint etc infact it seems to remove anything that isn't metal ) although not sure about rubber, anyway I'm pretty sure this would leave a decent surface for the resin to bond to, in my experience the resin is sticky stuff and seems to stick to anything you don't want it to when I made some bushes a few years ago it was sticking to the moulds despite a liberal coatings of various release agents PVA, wax, etc, I think it would be worth a try I have various resins around 95 A shore all I need is a mount