The attic will hit R80. Brazelton is doing much of the traditional renovation work himself, with the help of his father and a few friends. He sleeps inside the unheated, unfinished house on a cot, sometimes with the family's two dogs for companions. The more complicated work is being handled by a professional builder, Ryan Stegora.
Go with an aluminum patch. Use aluminum rivits or screws. Avoid stainless or other metal screws due to the interaction of different metals. Use a sealant like 3m 5200 or Boatlife. Do not use fiberglass to patch aluminum. It just doesn't hold up well.
Body filler works like fiberglass resin-you add a catalyst and the plastic resin sets up hard over the course of 15 minutes or so. So you should only mix up what you can use in that time. You want to get a very thin layer over your repair.Be sure to work it into the low spots with your plastic spreading spatula.ere's the crack in the fiberglass of the About.com Project 1977 Corvette. We'll show you how we fixed it!. Photo Credit: Photo by Jeff Zurschmeide. One of the projects that every restorer of an old Corvette eventually has to tackle is a crack in the fiberglass.