Good advice.......

That's what I did after crashing my Avistar........I was able to sand off all the old surface epoxy w/a sanding drum on my dremel set at low speed. Be carful not to linger in one spot for too long though or you risk dimpling the balsa. I did the rest (read hard to reach areas w/dremel here)by hand. Came out really good. I also saw something in one of the RC magazines where if you have a "woodpecker" you should run it across the mating surfaces to ensure absorption of the new epoxy.

Also, make sure to check the interior of the joints on the fuselage where the stablizers fit into, just to make sure there hasn't been any internal cracks that you'll regret not looking for later! The upper surface of the fuselage is very thin and doesn't have too much internal bracing helping the vertical stablizer stay upright.


Good Luck!