Quickie Q2 Lite Construction Manual - page 162
Q2 Plans - Chapter 10 - Page 10-04
LAMINATING THE BOTTOM SKIN AND BOTTOM SPAR CAPS
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Study the two sketches labeled "Bottom Canard Lamination", and
"Top Canard Lamination" very carefully.
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In this section, you will only be doing the "Bottom Canard
Lamination", but that one should keep you and two others busy for
about 3 hours. (The third individual mixes epoxy while the other two
do the lamination).
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To summarize the lamination, first you will laminate the wing
skin, which is 2 plies of UNI at 45 degrees to the canard shear web,
and then you will 1aminate spar caps A thru F .
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Organize your shop for the big layup. Measure the canard cores,
and cut the UNI for the main wing skins, labeling each one for
identification.
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Rather than have you reread and use the section on "Laminating
the Bottom Skin and Bottom Spar Caps" that you used for the main
wing, we are going to reprint and rewrite it here. (It helps make the
plans look more complex).
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The first UNI ply is put on at 45 degrees to the canard shear
web T.E.. The fibers must be straight, so take your time getting the
wrinkles and kinks out. Don't get ahead of yourself on pouring micro
slurry on the foam; otherwise, by the time you are ready to place the
UNI over a particular area, you will have a messy, hard, lump of
slurry. On the other hand, with the experience you have had on the
main wing, you should be within 10% of the maximum laminating speed
that you will ever obtain. Work with one piece of cloth at a time,
and with small batches of slurry and epoxy. Unrolling the UNI cloth
as needed is advised to reduce the awkwardness of the large pieces.
Scrap UNI can be used to fill in any small spots not covered by the
large pieces of UNI.
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At the leading edge of the canard cores_ let the UNI cloth hang
down vertically. Trim to within 1" of the tangent point, just like
you did on the main wing. At the trailing edge (T.E.), allow the
cloth to drape around the corner and down to the bottom of the shear
web so that the UNI is at 45 degrees to the T.E. on that face also.
Trim the canard tip UNI to within 1" of the canard core.
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No overlap is required on the UNI wing skin; just use a butt
joint.
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The second ply of UNI is also place at 45 degrees to the T.E. of
the canard core, but in the other direction from the first ply, so
that the two plies of UNI will have their major fiber orientations at
90 degrees to each other. Try to avoid having the butt joints from
the first ply of UNI coincide with the butt joints from the second
ply of UNI. The second ply of UNI is also draped around the corner
and down to the bottom of the shear web, so that the shear web has
two plies of UNI at 45 degrees to the T.E. and at 90 degrees to each
other. Trim all edges like you did on the first ply. As good
laminators you will, of course, squeegee to the nth degree to remove