Desert Center Wing Repair - 1/27/2007
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I headed down to Scaled this morning around 10:30 AM. The layups from
yesterday had cured so I trimmed them. I then cut some foam to fit in the space
between the lower winglet and the wing and 5-min. epoxied it in place. After
sanding it flush, the lower winglet was ready for glassing.
I cut the 2 UNI for the winglet, micro'd the surface, and applied the glass,
wrapping around the leading edge and bottom (inverted). I left the last 3
inches of the fishtail side unglassed, and will have to finish that after
trimming and sanding tomorrow. After peel-plying the whole winglet, I flipped
the wing right side up.
I then sanded the foam for the top wing surface flush, and roughed up the TE
glass. I cut a piece of nylaflow for to patch the hidden belhorn conduit and
then heat shrunk it in place to either side of the damaged conduit. I then used
toothpicks to hold the conduit in place in the foam.
After cutting glass (2 UNI) for the top wing/aileron skin, I micro'd, glassed
and peel-ply'd them.
Done for the day - I don't think I'll be done tomorrow - I've still got at least
one more layup on the winglet TE, and then a closeout where the lower winglet
meets the rudder. I'll be able to micro everything except the winglet TE
tomorrow, though.
Getting there......
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Glassed lower winglet, 2 UNI lapping onto wing bottom surface
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The lower winglet has been glassed with 2 UNI @ 45 deg., and overlaps onto the upper winglet
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The top skin and replaced foam prepared for glassing
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The repaired Hidden Belhorn Conduit - spliced, heat shrinked and toothpicked in place
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The glassed and peel-ply'd top skin
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February 17, 2007
