Saturday 28 September 2013

28th September 2013 - Left Wing Top Surface UV protected and Primed

Today I started the task of painting the wings. As I've covered in ceconite I need to hide the fabric edges. The picture shows the way the lower fabric wraps round the wingtip. This creates an edge along the cut surface. Following advice from Jason at Stewart, I started by appying the usual three cross coats of EkoFill which provides the UV protection to the fabric (I'll reduce this to 2 on the underside of the wings). Then EkoPrime was applied along the leading edge and sanded, prime and sand, prime and sand... until the edge of the fabric was completely masked. The rear joint in
the fabric is on the trailing edge behind the flap/aileron so that needs no particular attention.
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