Wing close! I got to the hanger at five AM to take care of final details and move things around to make more room for the crew. At six AM my two friends showed up and we quickly briefed what was to happen. A few minutes later my hired hands showed up. Dace Kirk (Phoenix Composites) and a crew of about five others appeared. Dace did a quick briefing and then started to orchestrate the workers. He is been there done that. Two hours later we had both panels down and had cleaned up all the squeeze out (there was a lot). Dace's theory is "don't spare the horses" on the resin. The squeeze out looked great and was confidence inspiring. Lots of clean up in all the bays that can be reached. He says they never have had a leaking tank using thier methods. Hopefully I will not be the first.
CAUTION - The hours listed are just my time. We really had a crew of eight or nine working for two hours. This is the way to do it, the panels were easily down in thirty minutes with weights applied. This allowed us to mix at 1.0% rather than 0.75%. I aways prefer the quicker harding that occurs when more than the minimum MEKP is used.
We ended up using seven of ten of the 300 gram batches mixed last night per wing panel. The five pure 150 gram resin batches was close to right per wing panel. We probably mixed up one or two additional batches but that was more so that more people could have there own cup rather than actually using the additional quantity. A lot of the 300 gram batches ultimately was squeezed out.
A bunch of pictures follow
Shot of Wing skins with boards attached, note salt bags under jig
Pre Wetting Wing Skins
Wetting out LH ribs and spars, me in green, Dace with the caulking gun
