Quote Originally Posted by taff View Post
If your thinking of attaching wing tip strobes, maybe having removable wing tips will be a good idea. It's easy to connect the wires before attaching the wing tips.
Good point. I am.

Ah' the kit. I remember the kit, bags and bags. little bags of say 20 rivets and maybe a bag or two of small quantities of screws that match the building method.
About what I figured. I'll roll my own from the Spruce catalog.

It is a structural bond? Well not so much a bond but the aluminum strips are riveted to the wing rib cap strips and the fiberglass wing tip is securely attached to the aluminum These aluminum strips hold the wing tip to the aircraft.
The non-structural bond I was referring to is the aluminum strip that's glued into the inner surface of my wingtips. It's just a spacer to make the wing tip outer surface flush with the cap strip. I would of course need a structural bond to hold the tips onto the wing.

As to closing up the open trailing end. I used fiberglass and resin to laminate the two together. I thoroughly sanded, as best I could with P 40 grit sandpaper and cleaned the area with MEK. First wrap where the squeeze out will be with kitchen wax paper. Get two wooden paint stirring sticks from Home Depot and then clamp the halves together before brushing in the resin and fiberglass.
Sounds reasonable. Messy, but doable.

Thanks for the info.