Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Lower Folding Strut Blank fill and first steps in joining the UFS SIde panels

Yesterday I received a pail of laminating epoxy which allowed me to move forward with a couple of small jobs while prepping out for some work this weekend.

Everything involved working with High Density Epoxy  (10% milled glass & 7% Cabosil) to fill the relief areas of the UFS side panels and one side of the LFS blank.

I'm hoping to flip the LFS blanks over tonight and fill the other side.
Once that's all cured I'll need to run a router across the bottom edge to round it over, sand it lightly and then wrap the blank with several layers of Carbon Uni before ripping it into the 16 pieces that will be used later on.

The UFS side panels were staged and ready for the epoxy fill, so those went really quickly.
This weekend I plan to apply the three layers of 18oz across the tops to lock them all together.

High Density Epoxy fill was added in along the sides of these UFS side panels



LFS Blanks all prepped and ready to receive some High Density fill



Carefully applied, smoothed over and cleaned up. After these pictures were taken I carefully laid down a piece of peel ply and gently smoothed it over so as to not disturb the fill.


I think having a little bit of work experience with drywall finishing helps out when working with this thickened epoxy.
So far it's looking really good.


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