Where I have broken the tip off my wing in my recent force landing, about 8 inches of spar was damaged. I plan on scarfing the top and bottom spar timbers and the 3/32 ply with a layer of 2oz cloth between them using Araldite epoxy specially for timber (my brother and I have been using it for 30 years on boats without a failure, we have made test pieces this way and only the wood ever brakes, never the joint)
Here is an extract from http://www.casa.gov.au/airworth/AWB/02/011.pdf#search=%22araldite%20timber%2 2 on Araldite. The following adhesives are commonly used for aircraft wood gluing: a) Resorcinol Formaldehyde Synthetic Resin Glue b) Urea Formaldehyde Synthetic Resin Glue, and c) Epoxy resin Araldite AW 134 and Hardener HY 994. Regards Barry Kruyssen Cairns, Australia k...@bigpond.com http://www.users.bigpond.com/kr2/kr2.htm -----Original Message----- From: krnet-boun...@mylist.net [mailto:krnet-boun...@mylist.net] On Behalf Of Larry&Sallie Flesner Sent: Friday, 25 August 2006 8:36 AM When I laminated my windshield bow and turtledeck bows from ply strips I used West Systems epoxy with a layer of KR cloth between each layer of ply. Light clamping pressure kept from squeezing out too much resin and the glass layer between each layer of ply has to add to the strength considerably. At least I assumed it does. So far no problems at 250 hours of flight time. Larry Flesner
