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Vacuum Bagging a High-Performance Wing
 

 

Get your fiberglass pieces and lay them in position. Dribble a small amount of glue on the center of glass piece and squeegee from the inside out. Again, work diagonally or you'll cause the cloth to fray, which can get really messy when glue is part of the equation.
 
 
Take your cores and wet the spar slot with glue and a brush. Do the same to the spar and root of the core where they join together. Assemble the cores and spar, then give a little brush of glue on the top and bottom of the spar slot. This will help you if the spar is a little too short to reach the skins.
 
 
Place the top of the core on the top skin. This is where the skin gets closed up and you start getting ready for the bag. Make sure that the cores are placed properly on the skins-remembering the overlap. Slip the cores into the beds, again, checking that top is top and bottom is bottom. Slide the wax paper dividers between the beds and skins and give the cores a final line-up in the beds before taping it all together with masking tape.
   
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