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Date:  11-18-2009
Number of Hours:  1.50
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Brief Description:  R-HS & R-Elev tip: Sanded, ballooned and floxed

I removed the clecoes from the HS tip and sanded the flox to shape using an orbital sander. The moment I could, I also mounted the LElev tip and start sanding the both together to ensure a smooth transition from one to the next. Lots of sanding later, I had a fairly good fi all round with a few places needing some micro and a few others needing to be built up slighlty with flox.

I mixed up a small batch of resin, poured a third out into another cup and mixed some flox into that and micro into the bulk of the resin. I removed the parts from the HS, cleaned them with acetone and started applying the balloons first as I wanted the flox mixture to "tacky up" a tad. Using a plastic card, I applied ballons to anywher there where blemishishes or in need of a tiny build up/fill.

When done, I built up the one corner of the HS Tip of the where the gap between the HS Tip and the Elev tip wasn't qute as uniform as I'd like - visible in first photo below
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Sanding both together - HS corner needs to be fixed in this imaage

Sanding both together - HS corner needs to be fixed in this imaage

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Both tips with micro balloons where required

Both tips with micro balloons where required

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HS tip corner built up with flox

HS tip corner built up with flox

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