Repairing dg1000

[stephen.shannon]

Hi All,

I'm looking for a some help with the repair of a DG1000, it's in need of some attention. So the main help I need is

 repair of the fuse

It's got some cracks and it needs a paint job, so firstly, so how does one go about filling, repairing and painting a glass fibre fuse?

Repair of the wings
The wings are made of plywood ribs with balsa covering, the balsa is painted and covered with what I think may be oracover but I'm not sure, the plastic cover is coming away from the wings and the paint is lifting. So I want to strip the wings back and re-cover but I'm not sure how to go about this.

Any help welcome

[Keith]

Hi stephen
There is a fibreglass repair kit you can get  . Its similar kit for cars but the weave is a lot smaller . I think you might pick it up in model shops or try e-bay  :!:
And if you strip the off The oracover you can just replace it with the same stuff and just iron it back on    

[Happy Days]

Er,........A picture paints a thousand words or so they say :wink:

[stephen.shannon]

[Happy Days]

They look very much like the “repairs” on lots of my fibre glass models!  :oops:  :oops:

 I don’t really have a clue how to improve them.

Let’s see what some of the experts on this forum have to say. :?:

[andrew wallace]

Stephen on the fuselage I normally use thin cyano where the crack is then fill it with micro balloons and it's easy sanded down to a smooth finish. If the break was big enough I would strengthen it up with some fibre glass matt or carbon tow in the inside. Strip the wings down completely and recover and if need be you can always make a new tail plane, don't use epoxy as a filler it's a b*****d to sand
Rub the fuselage with some fine wet and dry and then spray it and it'll be as good as new  
 
All the best

[billscottni]

Isopon are now doing a new filler called "Easy Sand". To quote a different ad, it does exactly what it says on the tin!!

[stephen.shannon]

Thanks lads I've started cleaning it down this weekend, it's coming up well, the big question is the wings, I'm not sure weather to paint them and then use a lacquer to finish or to go with oracover? Any thoughts?

[selleri]

Here are few pictures from a repair I did on a tail of an Ultra Flash. All the sanding is done with a sanding block!
The colours were mixed in a local auto store and put into spray cans for me.

Sand around the damaged area.






As the skin is part of the structure I used cloth and epoxy to repair it.




 

Epoxy and microballons to put into the deepest dents, note that we don't want this above the surface as it'll be too hard to sand properly unless you've mixed a VERY DRY mix!


Put into the deepest dents.




Spot putty used to finish the rest.


Some sanding.


Cover the areas we don't want to paint.


I needed to repair few dings on the LE and as my talents don't include fading out paint in spray cans I found the nearest colour change to mask the paint job.


Cover some more.


After cleaning the surface steel wool was used to key the area.


Next up some high build primer, we want it to look something like this.
 

Not like this! Here we'll need a bit more spot putty.


After we've finished sanding the high build primer a normal primer is applied.




 

Adding some colour.





More colour...


Hmmmm...  



As you can see the grey primer was a bit too dark for the yellow colour, someone should have used a white one. But we'll make do for now as this is on the underside, you'll notice that on the top side you don't see any colour difference were we sprayed yellow over yellow.

[stephen.shannon]

Thanks Selleri, smashing job on the repairs

[selleri]

Thanks, it's pretty simple when you get down to it...  even I managed lol.