Stab Repair "Help"

Tue Jun 7 12:25:26 AKDT 2005

Jim, the lazy man's way to make the wing repair is to use the very light 
weight and very strong epoxy filler, Super Fil, from Aircraft Spruce. Any 
final waviness can be taken care of with spackling. BTY your method for stab 
removal was super.            Nat

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Ivey" <jivey61 at bellsouth.net>
To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 2:29 PM
Subject: RE: Re: Stab Repair "Help"

> Larry
> I am glad this worked well for you. The fill work can be done with thin 
> pieces of balsa wedges soaked with epoxy and trimmed before it can cure. 
> Clean the fillet with alcohol also before it cures.
> Now if someone can tell me how to repair a foam wing with a 5 inch trough 
> 1/2 inch deep from the LE  almost to the tube,I'll be in business.If I can 
> repair it It will be a spare wing panel.
>
>
>
> Jim Ivey
>>
>> From: "Larry Diamond" <lld613 at psci.net>
>> Date: 2005/06/06 Mon PM 02:28:26 EDT
>> To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
>> Subject: RE: Re: Stab Repair "Help"
>>
>> Jim,
>>
>> I finally got the nerve to try this...Only took me 3 days to convince 
>> myself
>> that this was the best way.
>>
>> I was surprised at how well it worked. There were a couple of spots that 
>> the
>> wire decided to go off on its own, but Lisa helped to keep an eye on it. 
>> We
>> glued it back last night and now I will need to do some fill work in the
>> gaps.
>>
>> I will look again at the balsa on the fuse, but it looked pretty good 
>> except
>> for where the wire decided to depart from the intended cut line.
>>
>> I think we are in better shape than it was. It's about as straight as I'm
>> going to get with out a jig, meaning the left side is high by about 1/4
>> degree if my calibrated eye is correct...lol. Every thing else is perfect 
>> in
>> measuring stab center and distance to the wing tips. It was actually off
>> about 3 to 5 degrees before so this gave me a reason to make it better...
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Larry
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: discussion-request at nsrca.org [mailto:discussion-request at nsrca.org] 
>> On
>> Behalf Of Jim Ivey
>> Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 6:06 PM
>> To: discussion at nsrca.org
>> Subject: Re: Re: Stab Repair "Help"
>>
>> Larry
>>  One other thought. I have seen the fuse have longitudinal cracks in the
>> balsa at the stab line.Cracks with the grain. Check this. you may have to
>> strip a little covering and soak the cracks with CA
>>  The wing alignment was meant to say that the wing and stab are parallel 
>> as
>> viewed from the front or rear.
>>
>> Jim Ivey>
>> > From: Jim Ivey <jivey61 at bellsouth.net>
>> > Date: 2005/06/02 Thu PM 06:57:52 EDT
>> > To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
>> > Subject: Re: Stab Repair "Help"
>> >
>> > Larry
>> >  I just did this repair on a friends Focus 1. Cut 2 1/2 in dowels about 
>> > 4
>> inches long. These are going to be the handles. Take some wire rope 
>> better
>> known as pull-pull cable and stick it through the fuse at the stab 
>> line,now
>> attach the dowels about 2 ft apart to the cable. You have just made your 
>> saw
>> that will cut through the epoxy at the stab glue line. Have someone hold 
>> the
>> plane for you so you can saw.. Just make sure you saw lenghwise to the
>> stab(left and right) applying enough pressure to make the rope cut  Cut 
>> all
>> the way around,top and bottom. Now the stab will move 1/2 inch left and
>> right through the fuse. Clean off old glue(epoxy),realign the stab tips 
>> to
>> the wing tips and align stab and wing front to rear. Reglue and you are
>> done.This all takes less than 1 hour.  Good luck
>> >
>> > Jim Ivey
>> > >
>> > > From: "Larry Diamond" <lld613 at psci.net>
>> > > Date: 2005/06/02 Thu PM 06:26:55 EDT
>> > > To: "NSRCA" <discussion at nsrca.org>
>> > > Subject: Stab Repair "Help"
>> > >
>> > > I noticed that the Horizontal Stab on my Focus I has broken the epoxy
>> bead
>> > > holding it in place. It isn't 100% around but enough that it could 
>> > > have
>> let
>> > > go in a couple more flights.
>> > >
>> > > What is the best way to repair this? How do you remove the epoxy with
>> out
>> > > weakening the Stab.
>> > >
>> > > Larry
>> > >
>> > >
>> >
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