Chapter 19 – More Left Wing

Today I started out by using the “Fein” saw to trim the spar cap glass overhanging the end of the wing at each end.

Chap 19 - Trimming Left wing spar cap

Chap 19 - Trimming left wing spar cap end

Chap 19 - Trimming left wing spar cap end

Chap 19 - Trimming left wing spar cap end

Chap 19 - Trimming left wing spar cap end

Chap 19 - Trimming left wing spar cap end

I then sanded the bondo off the spar cap dam area & rounded the corner just a bit.

Chap 19 - Cleaning up left wing spar

After getting the bondo off & the dam area cleaned up, I floxed in the two upper baggage pod threaded inserts on the front of the wing.  I taped them in place so that the flox cured nice & flush with the surface of the foam.

Chap 19 - Baggage pod hardpoint install

I sanded the entire spar cap with the orbital sander, and then used the big gun: a belt sander I had picked up for leveling out the spar caps (it cleans them up nicely… also another Randi tip!).  I then vacuumed up all the fiberglass dust.

Chap 19 - Sanding spar cap

Chap 19 - Sanding spar cap

Chap 19 - Sanding spar cap

I used the Dremel tool to remove the dead micro at the seams, junctions and spar cap edges.  After cleaning up & vacuuming again, I cut the fishtail from the TE & started removing the 1″ peel ply I had tacked (stapled) onto the TE.  I had to use the Dremel on a lot of the TE, because if you remember, a bunch of the peel ply came out after I used staples vs tacks to keep it in place.  I did manage to get a fair amount of the peel ply back under the glass while glassing, but not all of it.

Chap 19 - Left wing TE prep

Chap 19 - Spar cap/Wing glass prep

I used my straight sanding board to sand the remnants of the fishtail level so the TE was flush & smooth, but I also hit some parts of the wing as well, especially the FC2/FC3 junction SNAFU area.  It looked pretty good after hitting it lightly with the sanding block.

Chap 19 - Left wing TE prep

 

 

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