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Date: 04-19-2024
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Number of Hours: 5.00
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Short Description: Closing Fiberglass tip
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Second day of checking the empennage completion.
Today, I tried on all the fiberglass tips which I decided to screw them on rather than rivet them on because I wanted to paint them separately from the aluminium parts. I think later on the process I think is a bad decision because it adds time for not much benefits. But on with my decision since I cannot revert it.
After checking if the trimming was done, I made a foam insert so the end would stay in the proper position before adding the fiberglass. Then I taped the foam and sprayed a releaser on its surface. Then I made a fiberglass cloth piece for each end, wet it with the epoxy and had each fiberglass tip to stand on its end.
Tomorrow when it will be dry, I will add more fiberglass on the inside junction and wait again for final trimming later after it's dried up.
Testing & trimming the FG tip
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Making a foam mold to keep the shape
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Sitting on wet fiberglass until it dry up.
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