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Offline tecumseh03

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Wing tip repair
« on: September 23, 2015, 08:21:00 PM »
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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Offline rmorris

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Re: Wing tip repair
« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2015, 09:53:00 PM »
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.
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Offline LittleBen

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Re: Wing tip repair
« Reply #2 on: September 23, 2015, 10:16:00 PM »
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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.

Offline tecumseh03

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Re: Wing tip repair
« Reply #3 on: September 25, 2015, 08:55:00 AM »
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?
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Offline LittleBen

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Re: Wing tip repair
« Reply #4 on: September 25, 2015, 01:40:00 PM »
Those tips do look like glass.

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

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