I spent a few hours this morning getting fabric layers cut out in the laser for a few airframes worth of flaps, rudders, vertical and horizontal stabs.
I then laser cut the vertical stab and rudder test internals. These are all cut from 1/8” lite ply before getting cut from the carbon/airex material or aircraft ply.
i then mixed up some thickened epoxy, put a small bead into the corners of the parts and put a light layer of 3/4oz glass in the flaps and a layer of 1.4oz glass in the rudder and left this to “go green”. This first layer isnt vacuum bagged so that the details stay crisp on the part.
After about an hour i started stacking the glass fabric, airex, peel ply, Perforated release film and bleeder fabrics. I was then stuffed in a vacuum bag and will be left to cure overnight.
