This afternoon, I started off by sanding down and smoothing out the micro I applied last night on the transition between the intersection fairing and the wheel pant. Once I had that looking pretty good, I moved over to the right wheel to begin the process over. This time I did it right. Like last time, I split the intersection fairing…simply by eyeballing a line to cut along. Once it was cut, I applied some packaging tape to the gear leg to act as a release. Then, I mixed up some epoxy, cabosil, and flox, and bonded the intersection fairings to the wheel pant. The difference this time is that I left everything assembled in place on the plane. That way everything will still fit together once the epoxy dries!
In the pictures below, you can see that the intersection fairing halves pull away from each other at the cut line. This will get resolved with a little heat tomorrow…
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