Monday, February 23, 2009

Follow-up on the rudder

I heard back from tech support this morning. They recommend drilling out the rivets, cleaning it up, and redoing it with fuel tank sealant. It'll be a pain, but I agree with them.

So now I need to order some sealant. Proseal at Aircraft Spruce is tres expensive, $78 for the smallest quantity, but it turns out Vans has it, or a newer incarnation of it, in 3.5 oz quantities for around $16. Horray for Vans!

I'm still working out how to clean the epoxy off the aluminum parts.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

What did you use for stripping the epoxy?
DKH

False Data said...

The product is called Sure Strip. Here's a link to it at Aircraft Spruce. http://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/cspages/surestrip.php