This post covers the last few days, including Thanksgiving and all its festivities for those of you in the States.  Also, not surprisingly the weather has been quite the mix between mildly warm to quite cold.  Thus my push to get the painting knocked out ASAP.

First up, I pulled the tape off the painted left wing vortilons.  Again, I used a recommended glass cleaner to degrease these vortilons before paint, but noted that it hindered paint adherence, with a few spots of paint pulling up when I removed the tape.  No more using that product, and of course I have another couple added tasks on my list for touching up/filling in some black and white spots.

On the left wing I got the trailing edge fences cut out of 1/4″ PVC foam and micro’d to the glassed base flanges taped to the wing.

Here we have all 3 fences micro’d in place.

And closer up shots of the left wing outboard fences (pic 1) and inboard fence (pic 2) micro’d in place.

The following day I untaped and then popped all the fence assemblies off the left wing trailing edge.

My paint finisher Phil also has some production delays with unexpected family arriving for Thanksgiving combined with his right hand man, Ray, being gone for the holiday.

That actually gives me some time to try to knock out these wing trailing edge fences, specifically the right wing.  I did stop by Phil’s shop quickly today to check the outboard right wing fences (curing on the left wing below), and I’ll note that glassing them off the wing has injected some slight variances into their alignment, which I’ll have to work a bit to get them to fit nice and snug.

Here’s a shot of the outboard right wing fences curing on the left wing, with the fence trailing edges clamped straight during cure.  Of course they’re not pressed all the way onto the left wing since it has a different profile, but just enough to allow them to cure upright.

Before heading over to Thanksgiving dinner I was finishing up the entire carbon fiber layup of the right wing inboard fence (top of pic above), and had just clamped the trailing edge straight.  The tape holding it onto the wing let loose and it slid off onto the shop floor.

The peel plied layup was all catawampus and I suspected the foam had been cracked, which I confirmed after simply pulling the carbon fiber layup off of it. I threw the carbon fiber in the trash and did a quick wipedown of the foam fence to remove any micro and epoxy I could before heading off to Thanksgiving dinner… I’ll redo the layup when able.