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I started out by sanding my already peel plied shear web with 36 grit. Then, I had a few minor gaps between my leading edge core foam and the shear web, so I mixed up some real slurrish slurry and "poured" it down into the gaps. Takes care of that. Then, I used a cake decorating bag to run a bead of dry micro into the filleted recess on the forward side of the trough. Then just laid up the plies like normal. The last short ply would not fit. I think she'll still fly though. The method I used was to slop plenty of epoxy onto the glass, and keep it real warm with the hair dryer, not worrying about getting too much epoxy in the lay up. Then, since I slopped it in warm, by the time I got to the other end, the first end wasn't white anymore. From there, just squeegee all the excess epoxy that comes out and wipe it on the side of the epoxy cup and reuse it. I kept the shop at 75 degrees all night. The next day, I used the fein sander to level the edges of the spar to the foam. Sometimes the glass was high, sometimes the foam was high. I held the fein sander in one hand, and the shop vac hose in the other, right next to the sander because I'm not a fan of spar cap residue in my skin. This works well. My RIGID brand vac is LOUD though. Ear plugs are a must. I visited a high school wood shop once and they had a FEIN vacuum and I had to try it. It was waaaaaay quiet, and waaaaaay powerful. Man those Germans never cease to amaze me with their style of engineering.---top notch. |
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