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Date:  4-19-2024
Number of Hours:  5.00
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Brief Description:  Closing Fiberglass tip

Second day of checking the empennage completion.

Today, I tried on all the fiberglass tips which I decided to screw them on rather than rivet them on because I wanted to paint them separately from the aluminium parts. I think later on the process I think is a bad decision because it adds time for not much benefits. But on with my decision since I cannot revert it.

After checking if the trimming was done, I made a foam insert so the end would stay in the proper position before adding the fiberglass. Then I taped the foam and sprayed a releaser on its surface. Then I made a fiberglass cloth piece for each end, wet it with the epoxy and had each fiberglass tip to stand on its end.

Tomorrow when it will be dry, I will add more fiberglass on the inside junction and wait again for final trimming later after it's dried up.
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Testing & trimming the FG tip

Testing & trimming the FG tip

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Making a foam mold to keep the shape

Making a foam mold to keep the shape

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Sitting on wet fiberglass until it dry up.

Sitting on wet fiberglass until it dry up.

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