Ray, When you do the dry fit and have the skin clamped in place exactly where it is supposed to be, drill a small hole in the skin at the edge of the spar at the inboard end and another at the outboard end of the spar. Put a rod through each hole and clamp the rods securely to the spar. Aluminum or steel rod or wooden dowels will work, just so they are not loose in the holes. Put a film of wax on the rods so the flox does not bond to them. Now you have a set of index pins to reinstall the skins exactly where they are supposed to go with no jockeying around for position while the flox is getting squished out. The flox may be peanut butter consistency, but it performs like greased goose s**t when you are trying to clamp the skin in place and hoping things don't shift five minutes after you walk away. For the top skin you need to glue the dowels in place before you fit and flox the top skin. The dowels only need to protrude a 1/4 inch or so to do the indexing job. When you go for finishing, just sand the dowel flush, and put on a dab of flox and peal ply.
Sid Wood Tri-gear KR-2 N6242 Mechanicsville, MD, USA smw...@md.metrocast.net >Am about to start work on my Dan Diehl wing skins. Ray New Orleans
