28 December 2008

Building the wing spar

Gluing the first horizontal laminate today, I have 12 of them to do. A 1" and 1.25" glued to form a 2.25" laminate. When I finish that I will block up the Jig so I can bend the dihedral into the laminations of the spar. I am thinking I will do it in two lots of 6 laminations each.

If that doesn't sound like much progress in the 10 days I've had the wood: I have had to:
- organise the timber in the garage, including building a series of chain straps from the ceiling to hold timber when not in use (so its not tripped over on the floor).
- build the jig table and jib board
- practice procedure including wax paper placement to stop epoxy gluing work to table

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