Thanks, I noticed that. Am looking into possibilities of getting someone to rescue this one. We’re quite busy with ours the upcoming years however, and our storage room is running out with the 5 classic gliders we have amongst us, as well as the time we have (club glider maintenance, and we’re pushing a K7 restoration as well at this time)…

Hi Dave,

Don’t worry. Wasn’t forced, just breaking it off along the cracks that were already in the plywood (which was the reason we needed to repair it in the first place) 😉 The glue joint itself was a poorly mixed one from a later repair, and that went even without using a hammer… It’s all gone now, and we’ll recover it with 2mm ply once we’ve repainted the attachments. In the meantime I’ve found an old CofA sticker that was actually glued over in another poor plywood repair that we redid… We have grown quite suspicious of any repairs we come across, which is usually a good basis for a sound restoration. Just takes a considerable amount of time…

As an aside: does anybody with gliding connections here just happen to have a port ASW-20 aileron lying about? One of our field’s gliders is in need of one…

Eric

@FB: yes, that’ll definitely see some airtime next year (not under the T21 though)!

The promised pics of the repairs to the left side of the front fuselage, with some new structure being put in.