WJ Handlepole repair , the real slim shady version

[WFO Speedracer]

Southern word of the day is Sensuous , Since- you- was grinding and laying up glass anyway I ground down the inside of the handlepole crack on both sides and laid up two layers of fiberglass tape and epoxy on the inside .

Notice that the only JB weld left is what was in the crack itself , The JB Weld was just there to hold everything together till I could glass it up ,
it's ground all the way down to SMC , Metton or whatever this crap is called.

Still getting rained out here , about as soon as I finished laying this up a thunderstorm popped up and I had to move everything .

 

[WFO Speedracer]

I felt much better today and decided to get out and about, so I moved the handlepole to my shop to work on it there , I probably spent a good half an hour grinding on it with the grinder ,flap disc and a die grinder and carbide bit . You will notice again 99% of the JB Weld is now gone.

Then I mixed up three different batches of epoxy and cabosil to fill in different areas , I used all of it , this thing is just like Los Angeles, crack city USA.
I believe all the cracks have been ground out and filled ,next will be glassing everything back up.

I am going to be real here just for a minute , don't get used to it , at first I didn't actually think this one was fixable , the bottom piece , yeah totally fixable , no big deal , the top piece . not so much.

I figured I would give it a go and at the worst I would have a plug for a mold so I can make a new handlepole, but it does now look like it is going to be fixable , I will most likely still pop a mold off of it at some point for later use and just in case the worst happens, again .

I always thought it would be cool to have a carbon fiber handlepole for one of these , I have no idea if a potential market exists for such an item though.

If this had been for a customer I would have thrown this in the trash, no doubt in my mind about that.