Devin W.C. Ryan

Fiber-glass Keel

Building Seamaster Day 46: Fiber-glass to Keel

On January 14th I continued with the fiber-glassing process. This time, seen above, I applied fiber-glass to the keel of the fuselage. The process was similar to before, this time cutting strips that would wrap over the keel and about equal parts on each side. This is done prior to the remainder of the bottom to ensure there is good coverage along the joints / corners where the keel is attached to the fuselage.

Afterwards I started wet sanding the wing tips. For this I used special sand paper that I dipped into a small bucket of warm water. This keeps the fine fiber-glass particles being sanded away from becoming airborne, you want to avoid breathing these in!

You can see the finished sanded product of one of the floats below:

Sanding Fiber-glass Wing Tip Float
Sanded Fiber-glass Wing Tip Float

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