{"id":1275,"date":"2009-04-01T17:21:36","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T17:21:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-12-14T19:10:37","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T19:10:37","slug":"fiberglassed-vertical-stabiliz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/2009\/04\/01\/fiberglassed-vertical-stabiliz\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiberglassed Vertical Stabilizer Tip"},"content":{"rendered":"

The epoxy took too long to cure last night (even with the 205, fast hardener) to make any more progress, so I came out this morning to put the glass in place. \u00a0I used two pieces on each size of lightweight 1.45 oz cloth (the flexible stuff you see hanging off the sides). \u00a0I covered it all with peel ply (dacron) which is the stiffer looking cloth you see in the middle.<\/p>\n

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\nAfter work, I peeled off the peel-ply and trimmed the overhanging fiberglass. \u00a0Looks pretty good for a first effort.<\/p>\n

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\nI also mixed up some epoxy with some WS410 (microlight fairing filter) and filled the open end. \u00a0I’ll sand this back to prove a concave surface to allow the rudder to swing freely while still providing a tight joint.<\/p>\n

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The epoxy took too long to cure last night (even with the 205, fast hardener) to make any more progress, so I came out this morning to put the glass in place. \u00a0I used two pieces on each size of lightweight 1.45 oz cloth (the flexible stuff you see hanging off the sides). \u00a0I covered … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-empennage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1275"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3940,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1275\/revisions\/3940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbeaver.com\/rv7\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}