Gentlemen,

I was the "other guy" with the Icepoint at the contest. I REALLY enjoy flying this plane, it grooves very well; so fixing the problems I've had with this plane is well worth the effort. Here's what I did this morning in the course of about an hour, let it cure all day. I'm pretty confident that this fix will make the wing very strong - however we won't find out until I move up to Advanced if it is "snap certified" :-)

I used two strips of fiberglass cloth - One 2 inches wide and another 4 inches wide. The West Systems epoxy is nice and thin, and I also heated it up slightly with a heat gun to get it to soak down into the existing fiberglass and wood. The roll of TP is there to blot off the excess epoxy.

The trick to getting the "China-Kote" covering off the top is to score it lightly - don't cut thru the fiberglass - along the inside edge of the purple trim pieces. Then heat the covering material with your covering iron set to a high heat setting. It will peel right off. You might as well go over the rest of the wing and seal everything down while you have your iron out and the epoxy is curing anyway. . . .