Chapter 14 – CS Spar…glass in the box

I marked up where the Outboard aluminum extrusions (LWA1) will go (on the inside of the spar box).

Chap 14 - CS spar build

Chap 14 - CS Spar BuildI then marked  up where the Inboard aluminum extrusions (LWA1) will go (on the inside of the spar box).

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Below is a shot of all the aluminum extrusions on the Right-hand side of the CS spar.  The extrusions will sit at the back of spar box & align with the aluminum extrusions on the Right wing.  A 5/8″ hole will get drilled through all the extrusions at each of the 3 hard points, and 3 large 5/8″ wing bolts will hold each wing on.

Chap 14 - CS Spar Build

I pulled the 1″ peel ply off the CS spar front face pieces (yellow foam/CS4) & then cut the edges smooth with the “Fein” saw.

Another mod I found somewhere, I don’t remember right now (It may have been a Marc Zeitlin or Vance Atkinson noted mod from the Cozy world … but don’t quote me), is installing a permanent plastic conduit between the outer end bulkhead and the interior bulkhead on each side, about 1″ round in diameter, as an electrical wire/antenna cable conduit.  So I cut & played around with some nice, thin lightweight conduit I picked up at the Aviation Dept at Praktiker (German Lowes).  You can see a bit of the grey thin-walled conduit–much thinner than PVC pipe–in the pic below at the bottom.

Chap 14 - CS Spar Build

I made 4 each ~4-pound sandbags to use during the remaining build projects.

I cut BID for the spar box & individual pieces for all 4 bulkheads. I then sanded down the joints between middle blue foam pieces & the outer foam pieces to align them.

I vacuumed the inside of the spar & then taped off the front of the blue PVC foam.

I spread dry micro as a fillet in the corners & microslurry on the large foam “fields.”

I then glassed Layup #2, which is the whole interior of the spar box (technically 3 individual compartments with the 2 interior bulkheads) with 1-ply of BID.

I glassed Layup #3 which is a staggered 3-plies of UNI over the interior aluminum extrusions.  That then gets covered with 1-ply of BID.

I then glassed Layup #4 which is essentially the same as Layup #3, but since the aluminum extrusions are opposite sides of the back foam wall (top & bottom when on the plane, front & back as it lies on the jig), the 3-plies of UNI cover both extrusions with a 1-ply of BID covering as the last ply for reinforcement.

Chap 14 - CS Spar Build

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Chap 14 - CS Spar Build

Chap 14 - CS Spar Build

 

 

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