ORIGINAL: YellowAircraft
Basically,
They have you using a piece of sandpaper folded over a thin metal ruler to clear the cloth and resin from hinge-line on top. As I'm looking at the obechi, I imagine I'm going to need a lot of filler to get rid of the wood grain?
Also, anyone used Robart robostruts in these gear instead of the Duro-struts? A set of three of the Robart costs the same as one main strut on the Duro. Are they that much better?
Hey Shawn,
It's not the "BVM way", but another good trick you can use in this instance is to take a piece of waxed dental floss, lay it in the hinge groove (where you don't want the resin) and tape it tight at both ends. Lay your cloth and resin over everything. Then, when you sand, the area where the floss is will be higher and by using a block you will sand through the cloth very fast (assuming you are using a 1/2oz cloth for finishing). Then pull the dental floss out. It leaves a crisp clear line. You need to be careful when you squeegee the cloth that you don't move the floss, but if you've got it pulled tight enough it's pretty easy. Even if you don't want the line down the full length of the wing, do it the full length anyway, when you do your final filling and sanding, just fill in the line with a little body filler where you don't want it.
Jeremy