More MYRO pod work

I was out early this morning trimming and tidying some small fillings that I did on the pod yesterday, before they got too hard, and was pleased with the results. I had a bit of a busy day today including meeting up with an old friend for lunch, so I wasn’t able to do any more until this evening. I just wanted to finish a couple of bits up before calling the pod ready for rubbing down and respraying and here are a few pics of how it has turned out.

The pod really wasn’t in as bad condition as MYRO’s original pod was before I repaired it. As I mentioned in an earlier post, someone had done a rather poor repair round this pod’s fork opening and as you can see in the pics, I’ve now redone it and made it much better. I’ve also repaired all the little splits and holes that shouldn’t have been there and strengthened the back edge the same as I did before. The reason is that I want to use cable ties to attach the fuselage rear cover to the back of the pod rather than cord as I think it makes a nicer job of it and I want to make sure the pod is strong enough to take them. And my strengthening also allowed me to repair a few small splits that were in the back edge, mainly I think from handling with the pod off the aircraft, but whatever the reason, they shouldn’t give any more problems.

So all in all, the pod is coming along pretty well and I think there’s a very good chance that it will look better than MYRO’s original one when it’s finished. Hope so anyway. And I’ll tell you something else – when I kept the epoxy resin that was left over from doing MYRO’s pod the last time, I never for one minute imagined that two years later almost to the very day, I’d be using it to do a similar job all over again on another one… 😯