Repairing a nose with stripped glassing

I’m repairing an old Spectrum for a good friend. The nose has broken off, sort of chunkily, not like a clean break across the top, and also has torn away about 1 1/2 foot three inch wide strip down the center. The peices fit back together very well. Would I be able to reglass this? I’m not concerned about weight. My friend told me to save the logo if I could, so that’s what I’m trying to do. Is there anyway to do this? I’m thinking just spread a little resin under, replace the nose and glass, weight it down and let it harden, then lay glass over it and sand it down. Does that make sense or sound possible?

While I haven’t seen the board, etc, sounds like it will work. You might want to cut the ends of the strip free before resetting it, just to make life a little easier, and use a little cabolsil/resin glop to bed the foam pieces, as otherwise there may be a slight kink in the rocker due to compressed foam when it broke. Best move is to set up a jig so that the two pieces are held in the right curve, butter both ends with the the cabosil mix and stick 'em together carefully. And then carefully scrape off excess mix as it squishes out - otherwise you have to sand it and sanding that stuff near foam means you get gouges you gotta fill and sand and then the next set of gouges has to be sanded, etc.

Resin it on - Pete C had some Really Good tips on how to clamp this sort of thing a couple weeks back . Sand as needed - I tend to use the big sander grinder for these. There is often an edge of cloth you wind up sanding away, it curls up and won’t go down well. Color match with Cabosil filler mix, and hope for the best, sand some more.

Then, glass over all. I’d use 6 oz cloth, maybe a kinda T-shaped patch lapping well over the strip that came loose and on the break on both sides. Band on the other side similar and lapping over at the rails, without the lower leg of the T. If it seems strong enough, it prolly is. Hotcoat, sand, gloss, polish, you’re done. If you want it stronger, wrap another, somewhat wider band of 6 oz cloth around.

By the way, use laminating resin for the laminating only, all your fillers and such should be sanding resin.

Leastwise, that’s how I’ve done it in the past, and it’s worked.

hope that’s of use

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