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hurstkr(at)redzone.com.au
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 Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 9:14 pm Post subject: Am I lucky or what? |
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Yesterday morning I backed my trailer up to the door of the local smash repairer's spray booth, unloaded the complete aircraft on its trolleys straight into the booth, closed the doors, dialled up 50 degrees C on the control and turned on the heat. It took a whole 10 min. At 2:00 am this morning, I turned the heat off after 16 hours and at a more respectable hour later this morning, I winched the lot back into the trailer and drove off.
I reckon I'm fortunate !!
In the next few weeks, I'll be going back to start ny next learning experience . . . . painting !!
Ok, I know this is old hat for a lot of you blokes, but I've been looking forward to this moment for a long time. Too long in fact !!
Kingsley from Oz.
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s(at)vestuti.orangehome.c
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| Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 1:59 pm Post subject: Am I lucky or what? |
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Hello Kingsley,
what have you done on the fuselage where it is met
by the Wing Root, is it an optical illusion or have you moulded an extrusion to meet the wing root?
Steve #573
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rlborger(at)mac.com
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| Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 2:18 pm Post subject: Am I lucky or what? |
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KIngsley,
You are getting serious here! If you aren't careful, you'll be flying that thing.
Looking Good,
Bob Borger
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On Mar 7, 2009, at 22:51, Kingsley Hurst wrote:
| Quote: | Yesterday morning I backed my trailer up to the door of the local smash repairer's spray booth, unloaded the complete aircraft on its trolleys straight into the booth, closed the doors, dialled up 50 degrees C on the control and turned on the heat. It took a whole 10 min. At 2:00 am this morning, I turned the heat off after 16 hours and at a more respectable hour later this morning, I winched the lot back into the trailer and drove off.
I reckon I'm fortunate !!
In the next few weeks, I'll be going back to start ny next learning experience . . . . painting !!
Ok, I know this is old hat for a lot of you blokes, but I've been looking forward to this moment for a long time. Too long in fact !!
Kingsley from Oz.
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hurstkr(at)redzone.com.au
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| Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:20 am Post subject: Am I lucky or what? |
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Bob Borger said
> You are getting serious here! If you aren't careful, you'll be flying that thing.
How I hope you are correct Bob !
Thanks for the encouragement .
Kingsley
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hurstkr(at)redzone.com.au
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| Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:20 am Post subject: Am I lucky or what? |
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| Quote: | what have you done on the fuselage where it is met
by the Wing Root, is it an optical illusion or have you moulded an
extrusion to meet the wing root?
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Hello Steve,
I firstly laid up my upper and lower fairings from the fuselage to the wings
bonding the two together.
I then cut the lay-ups with a hacksaw blade so that half of a fairing was
left on the fuse and the other half on the wing. Then sanded the gaps so
that the upper gap was almost 3 mm and the under surface gap almost 2 mm.
These lay-ups were made over blue foam so I then laid up the inside parts of
the foam and after that, the two semi mating surfaces.
The end result is a gap of 2 mm on top and 1 mm underneath. I intend to put
Door and Window Weather Strip on one of the mating surfaces. Only testing
will tell but I hope this should suffice as a seal for local flying. If I
want a perfect seal for X country flying, I will do the old glider trick of
running some PVC tape right around from trailing edge to trailing edge.
Maybe, I will have to use the tape all the time, don't know yet.
Have attached some photos which should explain better than the words above.
The dates on these photos are embarrassing.
Note that the gaps you see in these photos are a little wider than the
finished product because all the glass surfaces have now been filled for
painting which is my next job.
Best regards
Kingsley
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