Gavin,
I faired in my gear legs by covering the gear leg and the wing area with
clear packing tape. Then hot glued foam and sanded it to shape. Covered
the foam with two layers of glass. Two days later I worked the faring
loose and slid it down the gear leg and removed the foam from the inside.
Slid the fairing back into place and glassed it to the wing only. It fits
tight to the gear leg but is not glassed to the leg. If and when the leg
flexes it is free to flex and hopefully will not break anything.
Jim Morehead
Cameron Park, CA
Working on instrument panel and canopy
on 1/11/05 2:56 AM, Glasseyegav at gdono...@bigpond.net.au wrote:
> HI All,
> I've been glassing the underside of my wing stubs and the inside of my wing
> tanks today, wow that vinyl ester is awful to work with (sticky).
> I have a question about where my Diehl type gear legs enter the stub. I'll
> need to fair the legs in a bit, Do most make these fairings removable or are
> they normally glassed to the leg and the bottom skin of the stub and left as a
> permanent fixture??
> It seems to me if I foam the junction up and glass it it'll be a permanent fix
> and I'll get a cleaner line, but I'm concerned that when the legs flex it may
> distort the bottom wing skin.
> I suppose the gear leg can be isolated from the fairing so the leg can have
> some movement and the fairing can be glassed to the bottom skin alone.
>
> Thoughts??????
>
> Thanks
> Gavin
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