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 Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 8:11 pm Post subject: repairing grumman wings |
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Hi Tony,
Repairing a Grumman wing is not hard. As long as you understand the process, repairing bonded wings is really only half voodoo. Depending on where the wing is damaged standard sheet metal repair techniques can be used. Reskinning a bonded wing is very time consuming and meticulous, yes, but there are several shops that can do it. As for wing skins, we (True Flight) now have our skin former set up and can make them in the repair station. We recently repaired a set of wings that escaped the customer's trailer as he drove down the interstate on his way to our shop for tank resealing. Not a pretty sight but we were all amazed at how little damage was actually done. Once we replaced a couple of ribs and the skins the wings were good to go again. Not unlike a good paint job, the majority of the work is in the preparation and set up prior to the actual bonding.
FYI, here is an outboard wing panel that has just had the skin removed. Reskinning involves removing the old skin and repairing/replacing any damaged ribs, rib brackets or rear spar joints then bonding and riveting the new skin to the ribs. Before long we will have our bond room set up and we will be able to reskin wings using the production tooling and avoid the use of rivets in the process.
Don't forget that the slick bonded wing is one of the reasons the Tiger is so much more fun, fast and efficient than the Cherokee 
Kevin
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