January 2021
Down time in the winter. Weather has been dismal and a lot of snow is on the ground and the local taxiways. Time to do a few upgrades on the Q2. I have never finished the fiberglass support structure for the canopy, it has been left as bare fiberglass since building it. Now it is time to sand fill and paint the canopy frame as well as four locations on the fuselage that have shallow blisters that show in the sunlight. The canopy was sanded and then filled with micro and then finish fill three times with NAPA two part auto body putty. These same materials were used on the fuselage blister locations after they were cut out and sanded. I found under the fiberglass blister the foam was not attached to the fiberglass and was the reason for the blister. I cleaned the area to good foam then layered in a couple of layers of micro/epoxy to fill most of the space leaving room for new cloth. Glassed over, sanded and then applied a few skim coats of body putty for finishing then spray can primer/filler.
