Wing tip repair

[tecumseh03]

I have a Wing Slimline Competition that has a broken tip overlay. Its a clean break and the tip is good. Can I pay someone here to fix it?  

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[rmorris]

I don't think gluing the old piece back on would work for long.

I bet you could fix it yourself with some epoxy , black and white fiberglass, a $3 chainsaw file and a little sandpaper. I won't be back at the shop for a few weeks but I could mail you the fiberglass to fix it . Let me know if you are interested in attempting it yourself.

Also the banner at the top of the page is the bow hospital, check them out , I hear they do amazing work.

[LittleBen]

Originally posted by rmorris:
I don't think gluing the old piece back on would work for long.

I bet you could fix it yourself with some epoxy , black and white fiberglass, a $3 chainsaw file and a little sandpaper. I won't be back at the shop for a few weeks but I could mail you the fiberglass to fix it . Let me know if you are interested in attempting it yourself.

Also the banner at the top of the page is the bow hospital, check them out , I hear they do amazing work.

Two good ideas. It's not really a terribly hard fix if you just take your time.
FWIW it would cost probably $25-30 each way just for postage, so even if someone did It for free it would be rather expensive.

I would probably very carefully file the remainder off being careful not to cut into the back glass, then glue new overlays and shape as rmorris suggested.

[tecumseh03]

Ill check with Bowdoc, its takedown so shipping one limb may not be to bad. I may try and do it myself rmorris. Let me know when you get back and Ill buy some glass.

So those tips are glass not phenolic?

[LittleBen]

Those tips do look like glass.

If you're prepared to redo both tips you could go to phenolic instead.