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Sat 24 June 2006

Well the day started well, I brought the RHS inlet into the warm / sun to start speeding the curing process - however without the front clecos holding the ring, the PoP slipped slowly down.
This resulted in a deformed shape and a complete mess. I tried to recover the situation by moving it onto the plenum, but it was a lost cause - back to square one.....
The 'good' news was that I didn't have to break the negative mould, so I extracted the AL rings from the old failed one and cleaned / sanded everything back. Then it was back to the fibreglassing, mixed more resin this time, laid up some 'halves' on the PoP mould and then joined the sides together.
Also added another couple of cleco locations to hold things down / in the right place.
Then the balloon trick again to keep it all pressed up against the mould and leave in the warm over night.
Carl Morgan