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Date:  12-4-2009
Number of Hours:  1.50
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Brief Description:  L-HS & L Elev Tip: Sanding, shaping, strengthening

A lot of sanding agaoin, especially ti the L-HS tip after having being built up again. Took quite a while but I sanded it whilst it and the L-Eev tip were still cleco'ed to the HS and clamped into place. This allowed me to make sure the L-HS tip conformed to and extended the lines of the L-Elev tip,

I then filed a bit of the face of the counterweight off an rounded the corners (basically enought to make a gap for some flox to strengthen the face of the L-Elev tip. I mixed up a batch of resin, split some off and mixed up a batch of flox and then a batch of icro with the rest. I placed the flox on the inside of the face and sdes of the L-Elev tip (wherever it would touch the counterweight) and clecoed the L-Elev tip back into place. This caused the flox which I had just applied to force itself into the shape in the gap we created between the tip and the counterweight.

I then applied the micro as required (fairly liberally) to both the L-HS and L-Elev tips to smooth out the previous flox applications. Left to cure
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Tips sanded to shape again

Tips sanded to shape again

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counterweight corners rounded and 0.75mm removed from face

counterweight corners rounded and 0.75mm removed from face

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Counterweight wrapped up in box tape to stop resin adhering to weight

Counterweight wrapped up in box tape to stop resin adhering to weight

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