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Old 05-24-2021 | 05:56 AM
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jvaliensi
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Thanks for the shopping list. I do have some of it already, but I my stock of marijuana runs out too fast...

I am a horrible repair guy, my results are solid but look like plumbing repairs. This fuselage broke in the front and behind the wing due to a vertical landing. I over-sanded the rear break and wrapped with three layers of a very thin carbon fabric. It is all I had. It is difficult to work with, some of it lifted when I was plying it and a smashed it down, now if has a marble look. I added about an 1/8" thickness, mostly resin because the carbon is only 0.005" thick.
The front was busted and a put a layer of kevlar inside it. I sometimes do this to gliders while building to make them stronger. It is solid but the outside is ugly.
Next time I break a nice airplane - I am hiring a repair guy.