| Spent more time sanding existing filler/structure. After posting yesterday, I reveiced an e-mail from John Cox, who's opinion has |
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| benefitted me several times. he informed me that both Bondo and Icing were subject to shrinkage after being exposed to heat |
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| ususally shows up 18-24 months down the road. He included several pictures from affected Lancairs to demonstrate the issue. |
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| So, now I'm searching for an aircraft grade filler. The aplication is purely cosmetic as the only reason I'm doing this is to improve |
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| the appearance of the very irregular interior finish Van's leaves you with on the cabin. I'm pondering finishing off with the fillers as |
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| grinding/digging out what I've installed would be more work than the repair for cracks if/when they appear and it may cause |
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| unintended weakness to the underlying finerglass. I'm pondering continuing with the filler and then doing a 2 ply lay-up using |
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| some extremely fine weave glass cloth that I have. the resulting surface would still have to have a 'featherfil' like product applied |
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| and sanded to fill the cloth weave, but the surface would be smooth/level at least and the glass cloth should hide/help resist the |
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