22-07-2020, 09:12 PM
(This post was last modified: 22-07-2020, 09:48 PM by Ian Williams.)
Had you posted those pictures in the first place Geoff it would have saved an awful lot of typing as the answer is obvious!
I should probably add in case it is not so obvious to some that the patch is too short and the welds will have shrunk the join line, the answer here is probably to replace the repair section properly. The weld will still cause some shrinkage which can be corrected by planishing along the weld line, do not hit anywhere else on the wing! If it no longer fits it is the repair which is causing the problem by being either too big, or too small consequently this is the area which will need to be identified and addressed.
I should probably add in case it is not so obvious to some that the patch is too short and the welds will have shrunk the join line, the answer here is probably to replace the repair section properly. The weld will still cause some shrinkage which can be corrected by planishing along the weld line, do not hit anywhere else on the wing! If it no longer fits it is the repair which is causing the problem by being either too big, or too small consequently this is the area which will need to be identified and addressed.
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