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34. Remove the belly pan and use a pin to poke holes in the cover-
ing along the inside of the lines you just made.
If you feel more comfortable, you can, instead, remove the covering
along the lines. We use the pin hole method because it’s difficult to
align the small lip on the belly pan exactly to the cut lines.
35. Sand the edges of the belly pan with 100 grit sandpaper to
remove any mold release or high spots and clean with rubbing or
denatured alcohol. Also clean the wing with denatured alcohol in the
area that was marked in the previous steps.
36. Apply 5 or 30 minute epoxy to each mounting edge and fit the
belly pan to the wing. Apply weight to the belly pan until the epoxy
has cured. We use socks filled with lead shot for this task but maga-
zines or plastic bags filled with sand also work.
37. Once the epoxy has cured, you can seal the edges with a fillet of
epoxy. You can also re-heat the fiberglass with a heat gun to make
any stray edges lay smoothly against the wing.
Cut 2” off each end of the plywood wing bolt mounting plate and
align the holes in the plate to the bolt holes in the bottom of the wing.
Epoxy each plate over the wing holes to reinforce the bolt area.
38. Insert the horizontal stab into the fuselage slot and align it with
the wing as shown in the diagram
39. Draw a line on each side of the stab where it meets the fuselage.
Do this on the top and bottom of the stab.
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