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jdalton77(at)comcast.net
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Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 10:40 am Post subject: How many people are glassing their fiberglass fairing gaps?

I just completed trimming and riveting the fairings  on the HS, VS, and Rudder and have little, if any, gap between the fairing and  the skin.  I must have received a later batch because they fit pretty well  with only a need to trim the notches and a little length off the  flange.

  

 How many people are taking the time to glass over  the gap?  I can see where it would look good, but does anyone think it's  worth all the effort?

  

 Jeff

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Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 8:25 am Post subject: How many people are glassing their fiberglass fairing gaps?

I just completed trimming and riveting the fairings  on the HS, VS, and Rudder and have little, if any, gap between the fairing and  the skin.  I must have received a later batch because they fit pretty well  with only a need to trim the notches and a little length off the  flange.

  

 How many people are taking the time to glass over  the gap?  I can see where it would look good, but does anyone think it's  worth all the effort?

  

 Jeff

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rvbuilder(at)sausen.net
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Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 8:54 am Post subject: How many people are glassing their fiberglass fairing gaps?

I'll be doing mine and I have seen several other completed  -10's have also done it.

  

 Michael

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 I just completed trimming and riveting the fairings  on the HS, VS, and Rudder and have little, if any, gap between the fairing and  the skin.  I must have received a later batch because they fit pretty well  with only a need to trim the notches and a little length off the  flange.

  

 How many people are taking the time to glass over  the gap?  I can see where it would look good, but does anyone think it's  worth all the effort?

  

 Jeff

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indigoonlatigo(at)msn.com
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Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 10:52 am Post subject: How many people are glassing their fiberglass fairing gaps?

Before I riveted my fairings to the wings on the VS and HS, I mixed a batch 

of epoxy with microballons and placed some on the inside of the wing and on 

the fairing itself, clecoed.  Then I removed each clecoe and placed the pop 

rivet.  Then whiped the joint off with a sqwegy. The idea was to make this 

area have no flex and to fill the gap so that later paint would not chip off 

or crack.  Any gap left after the whipe off can be filled with polyester 

filler. Make sure to sand and clean all areas where the epoxy is going.



JOhn G. 409

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Subject: How many people are glassing their fiberglass fairing 

gaps?

Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:25:23 -0500



I just completed trimming and riveting the fairings on the HS, VS, and 

Rudder and have little, if any, gap between the fairing and the skin.  I 

must have received a later batch because they fit pretty well with only a 

need to trim the notches and a little length off the flange.



How many people are taking the time to glass over the gap?  I can see where 

it would look good, but does anyone think it's worth all the effort?



Jeff

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Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 4:41 pm Post subject: How many people are glassing their fiberglass fairing gaps?

In a message dated 10/30/06 1:56:14 P.M. Eastern Standard  Time, indigoonlatigo(at)msn.com writes:

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		  I mixed    a batch of epoxy with microballons and placed some on the inside of the wing    and on the fairing itself, clecoed.  Then I removed each clecoe and    placed the pop rivet.  Then whiped the joint off with a sqwegy. The idea    was to make this 

area have no flex and to fill the  gap 	


 

      Remember, micro-balloons are NOT structural, just  sandable filler.  If you want to "prevent flexing", depending on the size  and shape of the area,  use glass cloth or fill with foam and then cloth,  then micro or use a  flox mix with resin, and just use  micro-balloons for the surface filler.  Micro-balloons sand easier, but an  unsupported micro-balloon mix on a flexible surface will crack with  time.  

  

     (past Cozy Mark IV builder)

  

  

 Stephen  Blank       RV-10 Builder #40499 / C-170B  flyer

766 SE River Lane

Port St. Lucie, FL 34983



772-475-5556  cell

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indigoonlatigo(at)msn.com
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Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 8:18 am Post subject: How many people are glassing their fiberglass fairing gaps?

Stephen,



You are misunderstanding my application.  The fiberglass joggle(Flange) of 

the fairing that fits beneath the aluminum skin that gets rivetted to the 

skin , is where I placed the microballon epoxy mix.  All this did was fill 

in any gap between the aluminum skin and the flange(Vertical dimension) or 

the gap (horizontally).  There is no need for structural requirement as the 

flange is taking all the load.  No need to fibeglass over the top of the 

joint as the flange is making all the stiffness and the bond is keeping any 

aluminum from flexing.



I am not talking about the closeout (filling of the inside of the part) 

which I used a foam core sandwich with carbon cloth and resin.



John G.

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Subject: Re: How many people are glassing their fiberglass 

fairing gaps?

Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:40:48 EST

In a message dated 10/30/06 1:56:14 P.M. Eastern Standard  Time,

indigoonlatigo(at)msn.com writes:



I mixed  a batch of epoxy with microballons and placed some on the inside 

of

the wing  and on the fairing itself, clecoed.  Then I removed each clecoe 

and

placed the pop rivet.  Then whiped the joint off with a sqwegy. The idea  

was

to make this

area have no flex and to fill the  gap

      Remember, micro-balloons are NOT structural, just  sandable filler.  

If

you want to "prevent flexing", depending on the size  and shape of the 

area,

use glass cloth or fill with foam and then cloth,  then micro or use a  

flox

mix with resin, and just use  micro-balloons for the surface filler.

Micro-balloons sand easier, but an  unsupported micro-balloon mix on a 

flexible surface

will crack with  time.



     (past Cozy Mark IV builder)

Stephen  Blank       RV-10 Builder #40499 / C-170B  flyer

766 SE River Lane

Port St. Lucie, FL 34983



772-475-5556  cell

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