Date: 03-30-2012 | |
Number of Hours: 10 | |
Manual Reference: 5-2 |
LHS Fuselage two ply of UNI Layup. First micro the foam. Then let it settle a little and roll out the two pieces of cloth. Spend some time positioning and getting the fibers straight and at 30 degrees. This always takes a while but is easy to pull the glass around because its still dry.
The wet to out and leave it very slightly wet. Do the second ply again without wetting out. A little harder to get straight as some of wet glass begins to come through the new ply. The fuel gauge area and particularly the window and elbow room cutout is hard to get sitting down without air bubbles.
It looks great with 2 ply on but peel ply is necessary and it takes a bit more epoxy to wet out. The whole thing took about 6 hours with the LHS taking 7 hours. It just takes a while. Then there is prep before and clean up afterwards.
Glass lined up
2 plies done
Peel plied