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I've got my ASW-27B in the shop to have some cosmetic
work done - building up the tip skids and fixing some minor scrapes. At the same time I'm wondering if a profiling job is in order as I can now see spar and rib dimples top and bottom all along both wings. The shop tells me that it's going to need filling, priming, maybe microbaloons - it's shrunk that much while curing. The glider was manufactured in January of 2003, so it's 20 months old. I am surprised at how visibly dimpled it is. It's always been kept in the trailer in a hanger - but it does live and fly in the Western deserts so maybe the heat has something to do with it. I need to tap into some collective experience and advice: Is it too soon for this? When does all the shrinking stop? I don't want to go through this twice. Do the dimples hurt performance - how concerned should I be? The shop tells me they can bake the wings to accelerate whatever remaining curing/shrinkage remains prior to profiling. Is this recommended or to be avoided. I wasn't quoted a temperature. In terms of materials - what are the tradeoffs with Urethane versus Prestec versus the Schleicher factory stuff? What should I expect to pay for a full top/bottom filling, profiling and resurfacing/polishing? I've heard numbers that are all over the map. Thanks! 9B |
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