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Old 04-04-2010 | 01:25 PM
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Gray Beard
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Default RE: recovering a wing - ailerons?


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ORIGINAL: Gray Beard

I cover my wings and ailerons with one piece of covering so I have no gap, most the time. It's an old habit I got into, not only does it seal the hinge gap it makes clean up easier. It's not for everyone though but I have been doing it for a lot of years.
So I can understand your method. Do you hinge the ailerons first, or just use the covering as the hinge??
Hi Gene, I do what is called fillets first thing, just small pieces of covering in places where it would be hard {to say the least} to get covering into. I will talk you through the wing and ailerons. Fillets on the inside corners or the wing where the ailerons will fit and I over lap these corners. Outside tips and corners of the ailerons themselves. Now I hinge the ailerons to the wing. Now when I'm covering the wing the covering is over sized so I can do it with one sheet. When I get to the ailerons I cut the covering so it is loose at the ailerons, Just slice it where the ail. is almost touching the wing, finish covering the wing then I pull the aileron down to it's full deflection and run my iron into the hinge groove and over the LE of the aileron. Now it's just pulling and covering the aileron. It isn't hard if you have three hands. I shrink with my iron when I'm close to the ail. because if you use a heat gun you can over shrink and loose some deflection. Hope that made sense to you?? I know a guy on RCU that is covering a plane right now. The young man is really good. I will check and see if he is doing it in one piece or not. If he is I will put you onto his thread.
Gene