David LeFrancois - Experimental Aircraft Builder's Log

Beyond Blue


Date: 5-6-2018
Number of Hours: 2.00
Manual Reference: Step 3
Brief Description: Taped rear seat fuselage joints

Taping the rear seat fuselage sides to the floor: Cut 2-ply of BID cloth to make two 2" x 30" and two 2" x 13" strips of BID tape. Workshop temperature was 25 deg C and the humidity 48%. A batch of epoxy was mixed using 124g resin and 47g hardner. The BID cloth was wet out with a squeegee and epoxy was applied to the corners of the fuselage with a paint brush. A small batch of flox was mixed and applied to the corners where the fuselage sides meet the floor. The BID tape was cut and applied to the corners.

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