Wednesday 18 July 2012

Kate spends the day with The Doctor...

The damage before starting... the 'wing' took the hit and separated at the join of floor and wall. The 'joining strip' being pulled back here had a very weak bond and is the part in the last post with the pitting in it.

The kit laid up and ready to start the 'messy' bit....


An outside view of the area being worked on - here with a plastic layer over the top ready for the vacuum bagging being done on the inside in order to avoid any voids like the ones we'd found during the prep work.


'The Doctor' is in and applying the vacuum bagging to the inside of the repair - I got all over excited about the carbon lay up phase and forgot to take those photos!!!



In goes the wadding to soak up the excess resin that the vacuum forces out of the repair...


Ah, here we are - some of the fresh resin-soaked carbon prior to the vacuum doing it's job...


Pump going - note the darker patches on the wadding as it soaks up spare resin.


And the 'console' now 'unplucked' and 'clamped' in place with a bolt to ensure a good bond and to provide backup to the exotic aerospace 'will not come undone' glue.


All fixed - just leaving me to do the finishing work - several (ok, many!) iterations of fill-drink tea-sand-repeat until the outside looks close enough to the original...

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