{"id":281,"date":"2010-08-03T21:13:58","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T21:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/?p=281"},"modified":"2010-08-03T21:13:58","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T21:13:58","slug":"some-old-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/?p=281","title":{"rendered":"Some old business."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember how I said I wasn&#8217;t going to give you a play by play of all the iterations of goop?   I lied.   Here&#8217;s some pics of the process.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/images\/8-3-2010\/IMG_0545.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nFirst round of sanding.   This is just the black flox-resin buildup.   I grabbed some stiff foam pipe insulation (redneck water noodle), a section about a foot long, from the hot water recirc pipe on the side of the house then wrapped it in sandpaper, which gave me a flexible sanding block with about the right radius for the fairing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/images\/8-3-2010\/IMG_0546.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nA few rounds after this point, I was ready for some glass.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/images\/8-3-2010\/IMG_0548.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nHere are two of the strips of crowfoot laid out on the plastic, getting ready for wetting.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/images\/8-3-2010\/IMG_0550.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nYes, it is actually me building this thing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/images\/8-3-2010\/IMG_0551.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The black electrician&#8217;s tape is the point at which I&#8217;d like to stop getting fiberglass goo all over the skin.\u00a0\u00a0 Forward of this,\u00a0 I covered it with clear packing tape, which was a HUGE mistake, or at least it&#8217;s a huge mistake to use the cheap stuff.\u00a0\u00a0 I wound up picking most of it off with my fingernails in a time-consuming, arduous process that I&#8217;m not eager to repeat.\u00a0\u00a0 Word on the street is that the black vinyl tape plumbers and HVAC guys use (not duct tape) is perfect for this.\u00a0 It also takes a couple of hits from sandpaper without turning into a scored mess.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/images\/8-3-2010\/IMG_0552.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another shot of me.\u00a0\u00a0 Are you not entertained?<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/images\/8-3-2010\/IMG_0553.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This time, I put the peel-ply on in little strips, which yielded much better results than trying to wrap long strips of dacron around that compound curve.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stjohn.openbar.com\/airplane\/images\/8-3-2010\/IMG_0555.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This shot, you saw in the last post.\u00a0\u00a0 This is after glass and before the next layer of flox, used to fill the divots.\u00a0\u00a0 After that layer, I switched to micro.\u00a0\u00a0 All of it tinted black.. Nasty stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember how I said I wasn&#8217;t going to give you a play by play of all the iterations of goop? I lied. Here&#8217;s some pics of the process. First round of sanding. This is just the black flox-resin buildup. 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