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The glass and my new favorite tool!
3M77 and then its onto the wing
Time for the eternity paste!
Work it into the glass
Blot out the excess
Time to wait until eternity for it to cure!
Finally back to it!
Ok folks, I know its been over a week since I posted some good build photos, but to say that the last
week has been one of the worst/most hellish weeks I've ever had would be a severe understatement. So
enough about that, on to the build!
The wing glass took forever to cure, and by forever, I mean like after 4 days of drying, even though the
resin mixed in the cup was rock hard and completely cured, the epoxy on glass was still tacky! Stupid
finishing resin, I'll never use it on another wing root! The glass was hard though, so onward we went.
Next step was to put the carbon reinforcing patches over the wing bolt locations. I don’t really think they
are very necessary just in case you're worried about weight. The reason why I say this is because I have a
Long Shot 3 and the entire wing root is held together by just 4 diamond patches of carbon fiber over the
bolt holes. I've launched the hell out of it and flown it since May and I haven't had it fail me yet. Anyway,
we installed them because the instructions called for it, and this time we used thin foam safe CA to wet
them out. Needless to say, they dried much faster.
For the patches, I took the big piece of carbon cloth and measured out a strip 40mm wide. Then I took
the strip and cut 30mm pieces out of it, so I had four 40mm x 30mm pieces. Then I took the patches and
cut the four corners at approximately 10 degree angle to get the diamond shape. After they were cut out,
