Showing posts with label tip. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tip. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Vertical tail skin and tips

Pilot drilled the hinge and the rest of the skin and tip. The skin was still too tight around the tip, so I trimmed the skin a bit. Still it was too tight, so I had to trim the tip as well. This time I only trimmed it so a thin fibre glass was left. After I reinforced it on the inside with two layers of glass cloth and epoxy.





Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Vertical stab tip

Drilled pilot holes for the fiber glass tip. Filing the inside front and trying to push it as far back as possible should allow it to fit without having to cut it up in the front.

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Tips fixed

Some "blue foam", epoxy, glass fiber threads and gel coat and the tips looks perfect again, and the skin fits as it should.


Sunday, October 27, 2013

H-stab and tips

The tips were a bit challenging. For some odd reason, the tip ribs have pre-drilled holes. So do the skin, but not the tip. The tip is to be sandwiched between the rib and the skin and this makes it impossible to line up the holes. I used my old home made hole duplicator and duplicated the holes from the rib to the tip. Then with the tip in place, the skin were way to tight and I had to cut off a bit of the tip to be able to line up the holes. This leaves a small gap I need to close with foam or something glued to the fiber glass tip.