Two plies of BID cloth were cut to 33″ x 1.5″ to tape the joint between the bottom and top half of the landing gear bulkhead. Peel ply was removed from yesterday’s 3-ply UND layups. Shop temperature was 25 deg C and humidity was 51%. Epoxy was mixed together with 98g resin and 38g hardner. …
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Workshop temperature was 25 deg C and humidity was 52%. A batch of epoxy was mixed using 128g resin and 49g hardner. The 3 layers of UND cloth were wet out – both left and right sides. The bulkhead was wet with epoxy in the locations where the UND cloth is applied. A small batch …
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Taped 3 layers of UND cloth over both the left and right paper templates for the forward landing gear bulkhead. Cut 2 pieces of peel ply to cover the layup. Trimmed and sanded the taped corners of the front landing gear bulkhead. Sanded the forward face of the forward landing gear bulkhead with coarse sandpaper.
Fabricated paper (and wax paper) patterns for the 3-ply UND layup on the forward face of the forward landing gear bulkhead.
Sanded the top half of the forward landing gear bulkhead to fit flush with stringer LWX. Shop temperature at 25 deg C and humidity 48%. 56g resin and 22 g hardner were mixed together. Taped forward landing gear bulkhead with 2 plies of BID and peel ply. Flox was added to the epoxy and applied …
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