REFLECTOR: hanger rash
Andy Millin
amillin at sbcglobal.net
Fri Jun 26 14:47:56 CDT 2009
Hey Noel,
Burt Rutan published the repair schedule in his Moldess Composite
Contruction manual. I don't have it with me.
I believe it calls for steps of 1" larger for each layer.
I would call the factory and get their opinion.
Andy
From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
Behalf Of gattenby at tulsaconnect.com
Sent: 06-26-2009 2:09
To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
Subject: REFLECTOR: hanger rash
Ok it's in the garage so it's not "hanger rash", and it's deep enough that
it prob doesn't qualify anyway...
My wing fell as I was building / placing it on a shelf. The outboard side
of the vertical stabilizer hit another shelf, just hard enough for the coner
to poke a hole in the glass.
The hole is about 1 1/2 by 2 inches, it's just aft of the leading edge. (I
hope the pic comes through)
I have never tried to repair anything like this...
I assume (that's the part that worries me) that I need to sand the filler
off.
remove any other damaged glass.
fill with pourfoam, and glass over the spot.
Originally it was made of 2 layer of uni offset in direction by a few
degrees. (leading edge / trailing edge)
So I was planing on going back with 2 layers of uni, offset the same way
Overlapping on to the good glass.
I was thinking of the 1st layer going about 2 inches on to the good glass,
then the 2nd layer going about 1/2 inch farther than that.
That makes the patch about 7 inches across.
Is that way overboard, OK, or not enough???
Noel
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