Bad port sidedeck. |
Foreward cabintop was particularly bad, a very flexible top skin. |
Most sidedeck bad core removed to dry balsa. |
The bad/wet balsa. |
Nearly every piece of deck hardware was removed, and the penetrations were overdrilled through the top skin, filled with thin and then thickened epoxy, and redrilled through the plug. |
Often re-used the cut inner skin, and taped the joint with cloth and biax. |
One mistake was slightly over-shimming the supports and not checking the deck, resulting in putting a little too much camber back into the sidedeck after curing. |