The canard shear web was a nice layup. It took all day but at a leisurely pace given its not too big a job for two people. Darren was again my partner on this layup and that makes a smooth running days work.

We began with a careful application of micro. I’d done all the prep work some days ago and the glass was cut and laid out flat on the table rather than rolled up. A bit of protection with plastic and all the edges taped meant we just had to lift each ply into place. Unlike the wings, getting the alignment exact takes only a minute or so.

Pic two is just the lift tab attachments that look really nice. I have a very thin layer of RTV over the holes to prevent epoxy from getting in there. There is a lot of work with scissors and my cuts are not beautiful, just functionally correct. We were very careful to keep excess epoxy out of the edges given the spar cap goes here and we didn’t want to compromise the width available.

After all the plies the attachment points get another 10 ply locally, then we peel plied the whole lot. Or rather Darren did most of the peel ply work while I did the hard point layups on foil and then transferred them to the job. Darren got a raw deal here but never complained. Working with peel ply is less fun than other jobs.

Dry glass in place

A pretty attachment

Peel plied and done