Ch. 5 - Fuselage side RH - Part 7

Glassed the right gear hard point   (6.0 hrs)

This part always takes more time than you’d think, especially when you consider the dimension of what you end up with.

I cut a bunch of foam pieces, and like a puzzle I fitted them into the space between the wooden pieces. Then I mixed up some West System epoxy and micro-balloons, and used it to glue the pieces in place.

7 pieces of leftover foam glued together, make up the filler material.

I had to wait a few hours for everything to cure, then I sanded everything even, masked the area with tape, and slurried it.

Packing tape protects the wood pieces from the micro-slurry application

With the masking ripped, I painted pure epoxy onto the wood pieces.

Epoxy to go on wood pieces

Then I laid 6 plies of BID at 45˚ over the entire area.

6 plies of BID

Finally, I added the two local 15 BID plies buildups, and peel-plied everything.

I hope it still looks this good in the morning