The right wingtip needed some more filler to perfectly fit to the wing and I added some reinforcement fiberglass cloth.
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Fuselage kit inventory – 1
I started with inventory of the fuselage kit.
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Fuselage, canopy and undercarriage kit arrived
Today the kits for the fuselage arrived.
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Filling 3.2 mm rivets left wing
After filling the 4 mm rivets on the top side of both wings I continued with the 3.2 mm rivets of the left wing.
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Rivet shear / tensile test
While sanding the excess resin with micro from the rivet heads you have to be careful to not remove any aluminium from the rivet.
Removing just a tiny bit is done easily, I measured on a test rivet about 0.1/0.2 mm.
This doesn’t seem to be much but will it impact the strength of the rivet?
For educational purposes I did some shear and tensile tests with the 3.2 and 4.0 mm rivets.
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Rivet head sanding
After the resin with micro was cured it was time to sand the filler away.
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Wingtips fiberglass – 9
A while ago I added a reinforcement strip on the top side of the left wingtip, the bottom was on the todo list.
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Wingtips fiberglass – 8
After having 2 symmetrical wing tips it was time to perfectly align them and drill the holes in the right tip.
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Wingtips fiberglass – 7
Since I removed quite some gel coat I sprayed the left tip with epoxy primer.
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Rivet head filling
While working on the wingtips the wings are in a perfect position to fill the top rivet heads.
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