The right wing had been carefully filled using the Method B. Which are strips of filler and inch or so wide. The desired height is found and you screed in between. Today I tried something instead  instead of filler. I just put some release tape built up in a few layers. Then I had a go at screeding in between.

I think I’m too impatient for this method and not a believer. It is very hard to get an even spread with the thick filler mix. Time to try method C. Like method A you build up a heap of filler.

I started doing this in two halves. After a while I pulled out the tape and just went for one big ugly lump of filler. Fast but dirty work in the sense that it has no refinement.

From the fill I went to the winglets. The pic above is at the end of the day. I went back to find the filler had cured enough for a sand. This is my beast of an inline air powered sander. 15 minutes and I had cut the filler down to be ready for some longboard sanding and then a more elegant fill session.  I need to sort out the sandpaper I’m using as I ate a few sheets. I may need to give up on the cheapo stuff.

Overall I think this is the fastest method to fill and sand. Add a lot, cut a lot away, fast! I seemed to be in control enough not to go too deep, but you have to stay awake while using this tool or it will get away from you.

I couldn’t think of an easy way to do this part of the fill. So I went for ugly. Slap it on, after cure I’ll do a sand and slap some more on.

More filling. Sanding is tomorrow.

No one said this is easy. Maybe it is some secret initiation rite that Long-EZ builders go through and never talk about. I see the stick of pain in my future.   …but I have another special sanding tool to try first.