Your Schleicher ASW-17 was the second generation supership . The first, was the ASW-12 and for Schempp Hirth it was there long winged cirrus and the nimbus1 . Neither the cirrus L or Nimbus 1 made it to market. Nimbus 2 was built in numbers, but always felt 17 was a better performer. By the way your repair looked real nice. To keep it from happening again hide those runway lights behind the hanger I don't think they'll miss them !
Well I found a gallon of really good lacquer Paint that matches perfectly and did not cost me a dime, cut with some lacquer thinner and a way I go. The advantage I have found with the lacquer is that it dries fast and is really hard. The over spray just becomes dust and I flush the hanger out after each coat and see very little to none on other surfaces in the hanger. Soaring is a lot of fun and a challenge, when you sit up there all by your self with nothing but thousands of feet below you and knowing that you are miles from home it humbles the soul.
Balsa takes them dings . ive built model s (condors types) and with a thick finish over asphalt all the scrapes and dings barely beat on it and easily smoothed over if its dinged plus it stops crush. I like your work perfect fab and not patchy
I remember a video by Sonex (some years back) that discusses the idea of extending the wings on a plane. In essence you have to extend the tail too. With longer wings (on a 172) you get more Yaw - to make up for the Yaw you need a longer plane/ tail section. I personally would stay away from those kinds of mods unless I had studied aerodynamics. Remember if the plane goes into an uncontrolled spin - you die.
How did you glass the inside of the new balsa core to the interior wing surface? Looks like it would be tough to do the layup in that narrow space inside the wing.
Your Schleicher ASW-17 was the second generation supership . The first, was the ASW-12 and for Schempp Hirth it was there long winged cirrus and the nimbus1 . Neither the cirrus L or Nimbus 1 made it to market. Nimbus 2 was built in numbers, but always felt 17 was a better performer. By the way your repair looked real nice. To keep it from happening again hide those runway lights behind the hanger I don't think they'll miss them !
Well I found a gallon of really good lacquer Paint that matches perfectly and did not cost me a dime, cut with some lacquer thinner and a way I go. The advantage I have found with the lacquer is that it dries fast and is really hard. The over spray just becomes dust and I flush the hanger out after each coat and see very little to none on other surfaces in the hanger. Soaring is a lot of fun and a challenge, when you sit up there all by your self with nothing but thousands of feet below you and knowing that you are miles from home it humbles the soul.
Lovely repair, I hope you continue to enjoy the ASW 17
Nice piece of work John. Thanks for making & sharing vid.
The hand never lies
at 12:41 it's probably me calling you for a tow :) Oh wait, maybe not, snow on the ground...
Balsa takes them dings . ive built model s (condors types) and with a thick finish over asphalt all the scrapes and dings barely beat on it and easily smoothed over if its dinged plus it stops crush. I like your work perfect fab and not patchy
Only worry is anything else that can break cause its not gonna be there where you rwfabed it now!
I'm curious as to how many days it was from start to finish and how many man hours you estimate it took.
Great video, thanks for sharing.
Great video :-)
respect!!!
How long did you post cure it for and at what temperature?
Good video. Like core repair on a deck of a sailboat. What did your fill with after you laid the glass?
Let me ask you your thoughts on modding a 172 or 150 type with sail type and span for a motorglider????? I luv homebuilts tho.
I remember a video by Sonex (some years back) that discusses the idea of extending the wings on a plane. In essence you have to extend the tail too. With longer wings (on a 172) you get more Yaw - to make up for the Yaw you need a longer plane/ tail section. I personally would stay away from those kinds of mods unless I had studied aerodynamics. Remember if the plane goes into an uncontrolled spin - you die.
Yep..Balsa core. Like my old H-301 Glasflugel Libelle.
How did you glass the inside of the new balsa core to the interior wing surface? Looks like it would be tough to do the layup in that narrow space inside the wing.
I laid glass on the balsa first then laid a layer of glass on the inside creating a flange then bonded the balsa in place.
Is the whole interior balsa face glassed.? Do they do the top wing and the bottom wing separately and then bond them together?
great video! one question:
you paint gel coat in all wing or just on repair area?
Skip the gel coat and do a poly urethane, I used a lacqure that I had that was a good match. Gel coat can be done but it is more time and labor
Properly done:)
No, really not, because he didn't make scarfs to connect wing tip with new parts like balsa and GFK.
You look like Rich Little
Just had a heat lamp on it, not to hot ...
On sailboats we use endgrain balsa, you aviators do things a little different. wjnk wink
Flextape will fix that