Covering Cruisair Ailerons

[NC74392]

I'm finally covering my ailerons and taking pictures of the process. Anyone want to see how I did it?

 

[Larry Lowenkron]

yes indeed!!

 

[Rodney]

Heck yeh, post a link!

 

[Robert Szego]

DD:

Send pictures to me and I'll post them on website. Nice hearing from you again.

Regards to you and Margaret,

 

[NC74392]

As soon as the garage warms up a little more, I'll continue. Right now I have the hinge pockets partially covered.
The plan is to cut a wrap-around piece, glue the bottom cover into place, wrap it around the leading edge to cover the hinge pockets and stop- leaving the top of the aileron open for now. I'll tape around the pockets, install the hardware, and THEN continue the cover over the top. It's the only way I could think of to get a truly tidy hinge pocket.
Anyway, I took several photos last night of the partially completed hinge pockets- one of I'll have to redo anyway (got the iron too close to a section that wasn't tacked down yet- rats).
More to come

 

[NC74392]

These are "in-progress" pictures of the aileron hinge pockets. As you can see, they're pretty lumpy-looking. I left them that way intentionally to show how the iron (hopefully) will straighten the mess out.
I also included one that will have to be redone. The dirty, plain truth!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v41/cruisair/NC74392/hingepockets.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v41/cruisair/NC74392/hingepocketuneven.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v41/cruisair/NC74392/hingepocketinboardinverted.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v41/cruisair/NC74392/hingepocketmistakea.jpg

Hope to iron tomorrow evening and start covering Friday.

 

[NC74392]

Okay- THAT didn't work out too dang well.
On to a trial using two pieces of fabric to cover the pockets.
More this weekend!