One day I was sitting quietly minding my own business whenI see an email arrives. It is from a fellow from RCGroups who had a problem. It seems he was landing one day and missed and hit his timers shin. Crushed the leading edge of his nice Pike Perfect. He was talking to Glauco and wanted to know if Glauco would fix it for him. Glauco kindly refused but referred the fellow to me. I had him send pictures so I knew what I was getting into and saw that I had some parts from Tony’s Perfect SL that would fit the bill. As it turned out I sold this fellow my Sport Tube awhile back so he loaded the center panel in and shipped it off to me. It arrived safe and sound and I did my normal thing and immediately got Brendan to help me pull out the table saw.

I left out the part where I epoxied in the donor piece and glassed the seam. Basically it’s not very exciting and it is hard to take pictures with all the epoxy around. Basically it is similar to how I do the fuselages but without the breather layer and paper towels. I sand the bump off where the glass layer is and fill with putty. Sand smooth and prime. Sand a few applications of primer until things are smooth. Mask and paint with Pike Green. Sand buff and polish. Waallahh! Smooth as baby’s bottom and you would have to look hard to see that it was damaged.