Projects, click on images to enlarge
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- Trilogic, racing trimaran custom work
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- UCC Carbon Fibre Wave Energy Prototypes
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- Constructing the OWC Buoyancy Tanks
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- Testing in wave pool
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- Fibreglass roof 1
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- Fibreglass roof 2
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- Fibreglass roof 3
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- Underside of front clamshell repairs
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- Front clamshell
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- Vacuum bonding in carbon stiffeners
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- Front clamshell primed
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- Sprayed and rebuilt
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- Front clamshell back on body
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- RTE featured programme special bath for Michael
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- Inner and arm rests glassed
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- Room To Improve filming
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- Glassed, sealed and flow coated
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- Ann and young Michael
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- The finished tub
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- Fibreglass roof to Extension, measuring out the glass,
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- Roof glassed, cured and sanded
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- Topocoat being applied over glass
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- GPO Dublin Making mould casings to disguise the damage
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- Before
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- After
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- Race car engine cover pattern for moulding
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- Moulding first side, not the locater holes for second half.
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- Mould built up with flange joints
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- Mould cured, trimmed and first half removed
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- Gelcoating and glassing in the new mould
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- Finished new lightweight part
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- Repairs for RNLI to tender boat
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- Gunnel ripped off on port side
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- Gunnel glassed back in place
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- Join glassed inside and out
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- Seem top coated
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- New bilge sump to be fabricated and drain holes filled
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- Bilge tray connected to pump
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- Return angle piece to collect low lying water.
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- Bilge system complete and drain holes filled.
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- 22mt wind turbine blade repairs
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- Transit damage to blade 1
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- Transit damage to blade 3
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- Areas of damage before
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- Areas of damage complete
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- Taking mould of arch to reproduce new lightweight version
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- Removing old heavy arch
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- Old arch weight 2.5kgs
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- New lighter moulded arch at 0.75kgs
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- Filling and fairing join lines
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- Arch and sill sprayed
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- Jet ski repair to nose
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- Cracked area ground back to solid base and laminate rebuilt
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- Area reshaped, filled, faired, primed and painted
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- Lake boat restoration 1
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- Lake boat restoration complete
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- Pond repair with fiberglass
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- Previously sealed with a waterproof paint ?
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- Old side walls and base stripped and concrete left to dry out
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- New fiberglass base and side walls sealed with 2 layers and bonded flashings
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- Laminate sanded flush for final topcoat
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- Finished in a complimentary shade of polyester resin topcoat
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- Repair to Vaxhaul VX 220 wing
Vaxhaul VX220 wing repair, fiberglass
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- Car wing repair 2
Fiberglass car wing repair
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- Car wing repair 3
Vauxhall VX220 wing repair
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- Composites Training Course in UK
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- Resin infusion testing and theory
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- Resin infusion timing prediction tests
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- Vac bagged pre preg repairs going into the autoclave for curing
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- Damage testing repair quality
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- Theory
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- 17 foot Sea Kayak project, stitch and glue construction
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- Deck installed and bonded
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- Glassing the hull
Adding glass to the hull
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- Forming the cockpit coaming with heat and clamps
Cockpit coaming
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- Six layers of two pack marine varnish, painstaking work but the finish was worth it
Six coats of varnish
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- Kayak complete ready for maiden voyage
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- Beach buggy repairs
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- Beach buggy lights to be flushed out
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- Lights glassed and flushed over for new style
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- Screen frame broken
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- Frame glassed inside and out and reshaped
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- Frame filled, primed and painted
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- Lotus Exige Carbon rear clamshell
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- Rear clamshell primed
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- Carbon clamshell painted
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