Procedure:
Tube Preparation
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Tube layup: 3 layers of carbon fiber (cut piece slightly longer than necessary for some wiggle room)
-Used Systems 3000 epoxy but didn't oven cure after layup
Root Bond and Root Fillet
Did root bond
AFTER root bond, attached phenolic LE to G10 fin core (did after root bond because phenolic wouldn't have fit in the fin can jig)
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Quentin designed CF cutouts (6 sizes --> small to large)
Lasercut CF cutout
Preparation of Vacuum Bagging Materials
Prepared vacuum bagging materials
Tip-to-tip Layup
Mark centerlines on tube and CF cutouts
CF didn't meet up in certain places (ends of tubes, some were barely large enough to cover the fins)
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Vacuum bag was 32 x 38" (this is TOO BIG, make smaller next time. For the test fin can though the bagging was too SMALL, so find a good middle ground)
Oven Cure (ATTACH SOP)
Positioned fin can horizontally as shown, because there wasn't enough vertical space in the oven we used. This may have caused the fins to splay (weight of the tube + epoxy loosening --> fins move), so in the future we should position it vertically.
Post-processing
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Sanded CF on leading edge
