The three lengths of foam tube that I ordered from the company near Maidstone arrived today. It is excellent in appearance, of very high quality with lovely thin walls. It’ll make for a really nice job. I wish I’d known about it before but the trouble is, unless you’ve done something like this previously, you don’t know what pitfalls you might fall into. It looks so nice that I’m thinking that rather than slitting it along its length and wrapping it around the tubes, like I did with the pipe insulation, I might release the tops of the two fuselage tubes (again!) and slide it on. It’ll take longer but it’ll look so much better. Now all I need is the aluminium sheet to make the new hinge brackets out of which is on its way (yes, you’ve guessed it, off Ebay) and I can go ahead with the job of removing and replacing the thick padding. Be nice if I could find the odd hour during this week so I can have it done before the week-end \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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