February 11, 2007

In order to be ready for the next warm day, I prepared the rudder spar closing cover at the bottom end. Since I have already covered the other side of the spar with plywood, I couldn't just trace the varnishing area onto the closing plywood. I remembered reading something in the construction manual about using tape, sticky side up to transfer the lines. I don't know if I followed the exact procedure but this worked for me here. I put the tape, sticky side up, at the locations that I wanted to transfer lines and extended the tape further down the sides or up from the top in order to secure the sticky side up tape, down to the spar to keep it held down to the spar in the right place.

Then it was just a matter of lining up the outline marking on the cover with the spar outline while pressing down to stick to the tape. I did this free-hand which worked fine. Then with the cover pressed on there, I raised the tape that was holding the sticky side up tape down. This allowed me to draw the varnish lines in there. I took some measurements afterwards and it looks like it all matches.

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