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Fingers YaBB Moderator I still got all five! Offline Forum User LastOn: Yesterday Join: Mar 22^nd, 2010 Posts: 3,088 Reputation: 0 Dartmouth Gender: Zodiac sign: Awards: 3 Mood:	Re: Hurricane Reply #201 - Oct 18^th, 2016 at 12:20pm Well, sloshed a pile of resin around inside the fuse, and it was actually seeping out those holes and cracks that are visible in the finish..I put a piece of cloth inside along the bottom seam - now it's sand, sand, fill, and then sand so I can cover the whole thing with .75 cloth...
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Re: Hurricane
Reply #202 - Oct 19^th, 2016 at 7:27pm

Fingers wrote on Oct 18^th, 2016 at 12:20pm:

Well, sloshed a pile of resin around inside the fuse, and it was actually seeping out those holes and cracks that are visible in the finish..I put a piece of cloth inside along the bottom seam - now it's sand, sand, fill, and then sand so I can cover the whole thing with .75 cloth...

Weight going to be an issue?

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Fingers YaBB Moderator I still got all five! Offline Forum User LastOn: Yesterday Join: Mar 22^nd, 2010 Posts: 3,088 Reputation: 0 Dartmouth Gender: Zodiac sign: Awards: 3 Mood:	Re: Hurricane Reply #203 - Oct 19^th, 2016 at 7:43pm don't think so Ben. 1 pump of resin did the job, and the 3/4 cloth wont weigh much. Already have 3 pounds in the nose anyway
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Re: Hurricane
Reply #206 - Oct 30^th, 2016 at 12:32pm

same breaks, some filler and sanding done....at some point I'll resin it. You can really see the cracks in the side
Likely be impossible to match the paint, so Benjamin Moore here I come - 2 quarts of exterior latex semi gloss - air brush the whole thing then new markings from Callie.....although masks for painted markings spins my prop..

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Fingers YaBB Moderator I still got all five! Offline Forum User LastOn: Yesterday Join: Mar 22^nd, 2010 Posts: 3,088 Reputation: 0 Dartmouth Gender: Zodiac sign: Awards: 3 Mood:	Re: Hurricane Reply #208 - Oct 30^th, 2016 at 5:56pm Wish the damage was more the "bullet hole" type and less the "crack" type
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Reply #209 - Mar 13^th, 2017 at 3:47pm

OK, decided to glass the wing - had some repairs on the skin anyway. Was laughing when I called Cool today, never realized the wing was open bay!! Never realized because the top is sheeted. Grin

I know, shup Ben!.
Anyway, peeled the bottom covering off and repaired some of the bottom cosmetic. The gear block is the biggest problem, so some effort will go into that. Can easily make inserts for the holes.... little sanding, and off we go..
While open, I discovered another little ESM hiccup. While I drilled the hinge holes in the spots indicated in the manual, notice that NONE of them hit the doubler blocks inside Roll Eyes

. Guess I'll Gorilla some blocks over the inside of them.

Went to Benjamin Moore and got a litre of paint matched to the bottom colour -= just about perfect match..Exterior Latex Flat.

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Fingers YaBB Moderator I still got all five! Offline Forum User LastOn: Yesterday Join: Mar 22^nd, 2010 Posts: 3,088 Reputation: 0 Dartmouth Gender: Zodiac sign: Awards: 3 Mood:	Re: Hurricane Reply #212 - Mar 20^th, 2017 at 9:36pm Gear plates back in. Front one cleaned up and reused; rear one replaced. The damaged leading edge can be replace now that I've something to tie it to. Also, one of the joys of taking the top off the wing, there's lot's of access to put in triangle stock and plenty of other bracing
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Fingers YaBB Moderator I still got all five! Offline Forum User LastOn: Yesterday Join: Mar 22^nd, 2010 Posts: 3,088 Reputation: 0 Dartmouth Gender: Zodiac sign: Awards: 3 Mood:	Re: Hurricane Reply #213 - Apr 5^th, 2017 at 3:01pm New Leading edge on, give me something to tie the new sheeting to. At the same time I put 1" sq. reinforcing cubes around the Robart hinges that weren't hitting the factory blocks...
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Ben Lann Aerobatic Pilot Offline Forum User LastOn: Aug 11^th, 2023 Join: Aug 15^th, 2011 Posts: 275 Reputation: 1 New Glasgow, NS Gender: Zodiac sign: Mood:	Re: Hurricane Reply #214 - Apr 6^th, 2017 at 6:15pm Some how I missed the progress. Getting any closer? Hard to get anything done in between all of those cat naps
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Fingers YaBB Moderator I still got all five! Offline Forum User LastOn: Yesterday Join: Mar 22^nd, 2010 Posts: 3,088 Reputation: 0 Dartmouth Gender: Zodiac sign: Awards: 3 Mood:	Re: Hurricane Reply #215 - Apr 6^th, 2017 at 7:31pm Not bad progress Ben. Sheet the bottom of the wing, glass and paint. Got detoured with a little project, prototyping a small WWI plane. Tough - my fingers don't do 1/16" balsa
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Fingers YaBB Moderator I still got all five! Offline Forum User LastOn: Yesterday Join: Mar 22^nd, 2010 Posts: 3,088 Reputation: 0 Dartmouth Gender: Zodiac sign: Awards: 3 Mood:	Re: Hurricane Reply #216 - Jun 28^th, 2017 at 12:15pm Well who knew???? Seems a shop vac has a bit of pull!! Final vac before glassing the bottom, and the vac pulled up a piece of sheeting - thank you ESM So bit more glue, bit more sanding, wipe down with acetone, THEN glass
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Fingers YaBB Moderator I still got all five! Offline Forum User LastOn: Yesterday Join: Mar 22^nd, 2010 Posts: 3,088 Reputation: 0 Dartmouth Gender: Zodiac sign: Awards: 3 Mood:	Re: Hurricane Reply #218 - Jun 28^th, 2017 at 6:04pm Glen wrote on Jun 28^th, 2017 at 5:29pm: Think of it as pre-stressing the airframe to find structural issues. That, and I maybe shouldn't have used my Binford 9800 vac.
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Reply #219 - Jul 5^th, 2017 at 4:08pm

Bottom of wing glassed - now I know why they tell you to do the bottom first.....FUBER's not as visible. Note to self; "THIN the darn Epoxy before applying!!"

Almost ready to do the top, got distracted - the Hurricane had a cover over the joint on the wing, light aluminium likely. Sice my joining job is less than stellar, why not an aluminium cover......shape needs a bit of work, but after the glass is on and sanded...why not?

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