RE: Reconditioning an Ultra Stick
With the ribs fixed, I turned my attention to the leading edge. This was a bit more problematic as I could not find anything that came close at any of the area hobby shops. The leading edge looks to be either a trapezoid our a half round with the top and bottom smoothed out for a better joint with the sheeting. I ended up getting four foot piece of 1" triangle stock to use as a starting point. I trimmed the two 45 degree corners so the back was close to the correct width and then glued it in place. With I trimmed them I cut them at an angle so that the sheeting would join well. You can see the front edge in the second picture before I trimmed. The third picture is rough trimmed all around, but not sanded. I then did a rough shaping with a sanding block, mainly to get the sides ready for sheeting. I did not really try and round it any yet.