Tuesday, January 21, 2014

And One Step Back

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Next job is to fabricate the elevators and mount them to the canard.  Each elevator consists of two foam cores joined with micro.  A one inc...
Sunday, January 12, 2014

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Last week, we had a great Saturday, applying the glass to the upper surface.  We were fortunate to have a warm day, so the room heater didn...
Saturday, December 28, 2013

Flipped the Canard and Wondering about Wheel Pants

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After a bit of dressing up the previous layup, we flipped the canard today.  Things are looking good. There is one fly in the ointment,...
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Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Canard Lay-up

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Thanks to some major help from my friends, we did the bottom canard layup last Saturday.  Even though it was the first for these guys, I am ...
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Thursday, December 19, 2013

Bonding the Cores to the Spar.

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Pat helped me hot wire the cores and now it's time to glue them to the spar. The trick is to maintain perfect alignment until the epoxy ...
Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Canard Spars Are Now Joined

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This took longer than I expected, so what else is new?  All other prep aside, it was about 4-1/2 hours from the first cup of epoxy mixed.  I...
Monday, December 09, 2013

Spar prep

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Getting ready to splice the spars.  They are matching up pretty well.  Today I cut the 55 coupons for the layups.
Friday, December 06, 2013

Trial fit foam cores.

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Before I join the carbon fiber spars, I thought it prudent to trial fit the foam cores to see if everything was fine.  Overall, not too bad,...