Required Materials:
Test Fin Can :Procedure
Required Materials
-fiberglass
-plywood (1/4")
-epoxy: West Systems 6 or 24 hour OR Aeropoxy (cheaper, but needs oven cure)
-5minute inute (to stick fins to tube)
-some cheap tube
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-bleeder fabric
-vacuum bag
-peel ply
Actual Flight Fin Can Procedure
Required Materials
-Mylar (for initial layup over tube)
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-MAKE SURE HOLES ARE BIG ENOUGH
-Fin thickness
What DO: Test fin canTest Fin Can Procedure
) Cut fins to shape
) bevel edges (sand or end mill)
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5) Finish assembling jig (put top layer on --> push so that it gets caught on leading edge, BE CAREFUL after glue is set and of messing up LE
) let cure, take it out
) PUT ON YO REPISTROAR put on your respirator
) mix laminating epoxy with colloidal silica
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) vacuum bag (MAKE VACUUM BAG PROCEDURe --> see vacuum procedure)
POSt -procesing
THE REAL DEAL
Flight Fin Can Procedure
) cut fins
)wax spray CF
) cut shapes
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) outer fillets
- + ONE DAY
) sand outer filletzfillets
TIP TO TIP
) mix epoxy
)weigh epoxy
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