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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