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scratch built 7m ASH 31
- Simon WS
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- Joined: 18 Mar 2015, 11:39
- Location: Kent, UK
Re: scratch built 7m ASH 31
Looks like an icicle!
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- Joined: 18 Mar 2015, 20:12
- Location: Northamptonshire
Re: scratch built 7m ASH 31
Glassed the fuz today 4 hours work. Carbon tape on tail boom day 1 next day 5 layers of 200gm glass.
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Re: scratch built 7m ASH 31
Sanded all the glass with 60 grit. ready for filling with micro balloons then 2k filler.
Last edited by roo Hawkins on 09 Nov 2018, 08:14, edited 1 time in total.
- Peter Balcombe
- Posts: 1399
- Joined: 18 Mar 2015, 10:13
- Location: Clevedon, North Somerset, U.K.
Re: scratch built 7m ASH 31
Looking good as usual Roo
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- Posts: 557
- Joined: 18 Mar 2015, 20:12
- Location: Northamptonshire
Re: scratch built 7m ASH 31
Started to work on the ash after a long time. Started to make spars carbon and wood sandwich.
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Re: scratch built 7m ASH 31
Wing panels glued together and spar slot melted out with hot chisel.
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- Location: Cornwall
Re: scratch built 7m ASH 31
Sounds crude but obviously works! How do you heat the chisel?
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Re: scratch built 7m ASH 31
Heated with gas torch. It is crude but it works on blue foam ok. The spars are glued in with pu foaming glue after the carbon web is done the spar will have a 2in carbon tape on top .
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Re: scratch built 7m ASH 31
Spars glued in and leading edge cut off ready for 4 mm ply and carbon tape web.