When I bought my supplies from Aircraft Spruce with the 20% discount from the workshop, I threw in a yard each of carbon fiber BID and UNI just to try working with it. I made another “confidence layup”, this time out of carbon fiber. Since i had obvious air gaps at the inside corner when …
Progress has been a bit slow lately, but what I did get done since the holidays are some workshop improvements: It’s been more of a “woodworking” than “composite construction” thing, but I now have 2 “EAA Chapter 1000” workbenches. These were designed by (you guessed it) EAA Chapter 1000, who realized that it was nice …
It’s been a while since I’ve posted on any progress. Partially because I came down with three back-to-back colds starting on Dec 24 (nice Christmas present…) and partially because I just haven’t shot any pictures. Over the holidays, I did make what the education chapter refers to as the “confidence layup”, which is a 16-inch …
After working on insulating the shed and building the hotbox, I got back to the practice layups over the holidays. If you read the first layup post, you know the first try of the 6-ply 10×16″ practice layup was too dry with many white parts. I was hoping that a warm workshop and properly heated …
An exercise that almost everyone that starts working with fiberglass encounters right away is that of building a heated box for epoxy storage. The epoxy should be warm when used, somewhere around 30C or 90F, otherwise its viscosity is higher and it’s more difficult to wet out the fabric. If you don’t store it at …
After the SportAir workshop, I put in an order for a startup kit of composite materials from Aircraft Spruce. Since we got a discount from the workshop, I thought it would be a good way of getting some momentum on the airplane building. I didn’t order nearly enough for an airplane, but it’s sufficient for …