I should also mention that I'd put in a "bleeder layer" of paper towels
directly above the bubble, then a layer of builder's plastic (to keep the
topsoil bag from sticking), and then weighted the topsoil bag with 70 pounds
of gasoline cans.  I really thought that would work, but only one of three
was anywhere near "close enough", and the other two have now been cut out
and patched, with excellent results.  It's amazing how quickly little
repairs like that go, when you're not talking about doing something as huge
as an entire wing or something.  Vacuum bagging would be the intelligent way
to do this, obviously.

A post mortem of the patches revealed no two part urethane foam, just a
fracture of the foam about an eighth of an inch deep, so the glass had a
good connection to the foam, but the foam itself broke.   The only cure I
can think of for that would be to use 4 pound Lastofoam instead of 2 pound
urethane, but that's a high price to pay when you're talking about the whole
airplane. I am using Lastofoam to build my baggage area behind the seats
though.

Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama
see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford
email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net


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