Fiberglass 2nd Shift

Responsibilities

• Release air bubbles and smooth seams using rollers.
• Mix catalysts into resins and saturate cloth and mats with mixtures using brushes.
• Check completed products for conformance to specifications and defects by measuring with rulers or micrometers, visual inspection, or tapping to detect bubbles or dead spots.
• Pat or press layers of saturated mat or cloth into place on molds using brushes or hands, and smooth out wrinkles and air bubbles with hands or squeegees.
• Select precut fiberglass mats, cloth, and wood-bracing materials as required by projects.
• Bond wood reinforcing strips to decks and cabin structures of watercraft using resin-saturated fiberglass.
• Trim excess materials from molds using hand shears or trimming knives.
• Apply layers of plastic resin to mold surfaces prior to placement of fiberglass mats, repeating layers until products reach desired thicknesses and plastics have jelled.
• Inspect, clean, and assemble molds before beginning work.
• Cure materials by letting them set at room temperature, placing them under heat lamps, or baking them in ovens.
• Apply lacquers and waxes to mold surfaces to facilitate assembly and removal of laminated parts.
• Repair or modify damaged or defective glass-fiber parts, checking thicknesses, densities, and contours to ensure a close fit after repair.
• Mask off mold areas not to be laminated using cellophane, wax paper, masking tape, or special sprays containing mold-release substances.
• Check all dies, templates, and cutout patterns for conformance to dimensional data, photographs, blueprints, samples, or customer specifications.