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Jim's Web Site
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Date: 8-11-2013
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Number of Hours: 2.50
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Brief Description:
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The epoxy heat box seems to work pretty well. With two forty watt bulbs, and basement temperature of 68 degrees, the temp inside the box, and thus the epoxy, is about 87 degrees. When I need to do many layer layups, I might replace one forty watt bulb with a sixty watt bulb, to jack the temp inside the box to around 90 degrees. But for now it works just fine.
As far as work today, I potted in four ribs, 140.2 aft, 140.2 forward, 171 aft and 145.5 forward. Before doing that, I checked clearance between the lower skin and the two ribs I potted in yesterday. There is a bit of gap, but that will be filled with flox micro mixture later. I'm going to have to trust that the work I've done so far is ok, and will go ahead and pot in, then reinforce all ribs. There has to come a time when you just forge ahead. Getting ribs to fit exactly, in the blind, is just about impossible at this step. The capstrip method will provide the exact, structural fit necessary.
Camera battery is dead. Pix next week, hopefully.
Well, camera is back. This is the heat box. Pretty simple, but very effective. The two 40 watt bulbs keep temp at 90. That's really proved to be pretty hot, thus the micro mix I'm using now cooks a bit too fast. So I'm going to take out one bulb and see how the temp goes.
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