Some trailing edge wedges

Let's glue together some trailing edge wedges together toward creating a fairing for the aft strut.

Several years ago, I made a small section of the fairing and covered it with fabric.  It holds up reasonably well, but fiberglass will be more rigid than the fabric.  This is the staring point.

 

It took a few hours to clean up the pile of trailing edge foam pieces with a sharp x-acto and a sanding block.  There is nothing like the accomplishment completing a pile of monotony. The effort was to remove the little bridges and other nibs so they could be glued together in sections.

I decided to make the trailing edge in 18in sections.  These will eventually be covered with lightweight spackle, sanded smooth, and glassed.

The thought occurred to me that making a thin-walled fiberglass tube over a section of scrap aluminum would allow sliding a fairing section over the strut.  That thin tube would also give a bonding surface for the leading edge pieces, so the whole fairing could be an add-on part.  This sounds like more work.  We'll see.

In case you're counting, it took about 136 individual trailing edge wedges for the aft strut.  I'll do a final count later.  Multiply this by two for the leading edge of the aft strut, then multiply by two for the opposite side, then multiply this by two for the forward strut.  That'll be around 1000 individual pieces of foam.  I hope this is worth the effort!