Tony
Forgot to mention, I also turned up some extended flap drive pointy pins. They
extend about 2 inches longer than the original ones so you can locate them into
the cross tube before pushing the wings close to the fuse, works fine.
Jim
> On 19 Feb 2014, at 5:27 pm, Tony Renshaw <tonyrenshaw268@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Gidday,
> Like others I am considering whether I will close off the end of my flaps. I
have found a tube that is tapered down to the OD of the flap cross tube, my
vacuum
cleaner wand, and I have created a couple of tubes that I intend on placing
over the flap cross tube and re-rigging the wings, then filling the gap ideally
with expand foam or something similar, shaping it, and then glassing over
it, with flox corners and 2 plies of BID. Has anyone used expand foam to shape
things as it is a deep closeout now with the flap extensions on them, and to
make up foam inserts would be a bit of a disaster. I tried some expanding foam
today, upside down as instructed, and disaster. It managed to exude around the
base of the wand, not down it into my dummy setup, the inside of a tissue box.
So, I have a puddle of expanding cell foam on my bench that I can now see
if it is sandable and shapeable, or not.
> There must be an easier way, but I dont know what it is. It seems wise to fill
it rather than have a chamber of air, requiring venting if I just create a wall
at the end of the closeout, somehow. Any tips??
> Tony R.
> Sydney Aussie.
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