Dear Europa group members,
I am currently working on the flap layups and I am finding that the time it
takes
me to do the layups is WAY too long for my taste. It took me 3 hours from the
moment I started applying micro slurry to finish doing the top of the port
flap.
What I find I am struggling with is making the fibers straight. I am using a
pipe
to roll the fabric and then place it on the surface. I also place a tape at
the line where the bias cut is made in the fabric (which I think maybe causing
issues when the fabric is placed in the core).
After I place the fabric on the core, I start pulling the fibers straight but
it's
not easy to get a good result since other parts of the fabric are already
getting stuck in the epoxy. I do hold the fibers down at the LE and pull the
fibers
away from the surface at the TE to make them straight, but that action disrupts
adjacent fibers that I already made straight.
Any techniques to help making the fibers straight? How straight do they have to
be? I know that the straighter the better but maybe I am working too hard to
make them perfect, which I am starting to believe is a hard thing to achieve.
After all, every process has a tolerance.
BTW, at the end the flap come out OK but its a painful process I am hoping to
learn
to do in an easier faster way.
Best Regards,
Chris Martin
sites.google.com/site/martineuropaxsa291/
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