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Re: Europa-List: Photos of wing root

Subject: Re: Europa-List: Photos of wing root
From: Andrew Sarangan <asarangan@YAHOO.COM>
Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 20:02:50

Thanks Nev! But I think I have found where the plies terminate. By 
looking at the trimmed edges around the wing root, I found a place
where the plies changed thickness which gave away the location.


--- NevEyre@aol.com wrote:

> 
> Hi Andrew,
> Don't waste time looking for the ends of the glass plies........
> Take the first ply of your rib / spar lay up into the radius of the
> stack of 
> alloy plates [ make this one the long one on the spar].
> The second ply, the next shorter on the spar, should be 1/2'' [ 13mm
> in 
> foriegn] shorter than the first, at the stack end.
> The third ply, [ the shortest onto the spar] should be 1/2'' shorter
> again at 
> the stack end.
> Ensure you scuff into the radius with 80 grit, if the peel ply didn't
> go as 
> far as that.
> Job done ! Have a good one !
> Cheers,
> Nev.
> 
> 




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