birddog1148 wrote:Do you think the delamination would have ocoured if he had used a light colored paint as opposed to the dark color he chose?
Gaston would need to be the one to answer that. As best as I recall he said there's a crack between the side walls and fenders and that once the weather cooled the bulging fiberglass flattened out again. In the cool weather under the redwoods at IRG I didn't see any bulging.
A little off topic - I plan to use white paint over the outer fiberglass skin atop the plywood walls, roof and hatch of my teardrop to reflect heat better than a darker color would on hot sunny days. On my TD the epoxy/fiberglass is well embedded into the plywood so no bulging or delamination is expected. Perhaps the epoxy saturated divots where the outer plywood skin was stapled to the wood frame will give extra anchoring to the fiberglass skin of my TD.