How does one approach removing damaged or mis-shaped fiberglass sections. I know how I would do it on a boat but boats don't have ribs and spars. For instance, how would you remove the entire top surface of a stub wing to install an aluminum tank and beef up the top surface for a wing walk area? This takes a pretty big chunk out of the stub wing, infact it would probably be easier to remove the entire top in order to get a really nice top back again with out a lot of filling and such. Would you cut along the inside of the spars and down the sides of the two main ribs all the way bac to the trailing edge, do your internal work, inspect it real good while you have it open, then glue in your foam and shape the top surface and reglass? Or would you just cut out just the areas affected and patch them up, feathering out the edges of all the cut outs and use stepped patching to restore the surface? Seems the later would be more time consuming to me.
What's the consensus on how to approach a major rework? Thanks in advance for your input. Phill Hill Colinsville, IL
