Are you planning on doing the same with the top of the wing to center section space. I am about to mount the new wings of my wood spar J3 Cub onto the fuselage and I will do likewise to prevent water and dust from getting in. Please take photos and post them of your Coupe job. Rain water can often be on the acid side of pH. Also should be a discusion on methods of keeping mice out of wings and fuselages of coupes.. Ron Hynes Alberta, Canada
--- On Sun, 4/11/10, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ercoupe-tech] Wing recover To: [email protected] Received: Sunday, April 11, 2010, 2:43 PM We are recoving the wings on my airplane and took off the grade A cotton that was put on in 1992 and was just on the cusp of failing test. We were really surprised when we opened up the wings and found nice, bright, shiny ribs looking like they had just rolled out of the factory. Also noticed that the intrusion of dirt & etc. into the inner wing structure is from the seam between the outer/inner wing which is nearly aligned with the main gear. Found some dirt and debris in the inner wing structure and I think landing on wet/grass runways throws a lot of junk up into the wing through that seam. I'm thinking of sealing the bottom of that junction off with some kind of tape to keep the water out after we remount the wings and before we put the aluminum junction strips back on. Any thoughts?
