{"id":2587,"date":"2009-06-29T21:06:17","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T03:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/?p=2587"},"modified":"2015-02-02T21:13:46","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T03:13:46","slug":"2-3-2-winglet-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/29\/2-3-2-winglet-repair\/","title":{"rendered":"2.3.2 Winglet Repair"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-4068\" data-series-id=\"26\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 7 of 8 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/series\/02-wing-winglets\/\">02 - Wing \/ Winglets<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">You may recall that when the airplane was brought back from PA, the<br \/>\nright winglet sustained some shipping damage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">To fix it, I had to grind the surface filler down to the fiberglass<br \/>\nand trim back the fiberglass. Then I had to cut out the foam.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2009-05-20-1607-IMG_8626.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2589\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2009-05-20-1607-IMG_8626-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"2009-05-20 1607 IMG_8626\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Next, create a &#8220;plug&#8221; and bond it in place with epoxy\/micro.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2009-05-20-1608-IMG_8627.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2009-05-20-1608-IMG_8627-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"2009-05-20 1608 IMG_8627\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2009-05-20-1608-IMG_8628.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2588\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2009-05-20-1608-IMG_8628-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"2009-05-20 1608 IMG_8628\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><br \/>\nThen cover the entire area with two layers of UNI and the first coat of filler.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2009-06-29-0934-IMG_8859.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2591\" src=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2009-06-29-0934-IMG_8859-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"2009-06-29 0934 IMG_8859\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pps-series-post-details pps-series-post-details-variant-classic pps-series-post-details-4068 pps-series-meta-excerpt\" data-series-id=\"26\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-content\"><div class=\"pps-series-meta-text\">This entry is part 7 of 8 in the series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/series\/02-wing-winglets\/\">02 - Wing \/ Winglets<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><p>You may recall that when the airplane was brought back from PA, the right winglet sustained some shipping damage. To fix it, I had to grind the surface filler down to the fiberglass and trim back the fiberglass. Then I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/29\/2-3-2-winglet-repair\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"series":[26],"class_list":["post-2587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6","series-02-wing-winglets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2592,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions\/2592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2587"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.velocity-xl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}