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Charles,

I just finished doing that a week ago.  I discovered a trick quite by
accident.  It came from a friend who made a comment that ended up clicking
in my head as to how to proceed with preventing the main spar and load
transfer pad from wiping the hysol off.  Take a tongue depresser and break
it in half.....lay it on the forward foam pad after you have smeared the
micro on it...the ones that are next to the load transfer pads.   When you
lay the belly pan on, and tilt it up to fit the lower forward edge under the
bottom of the spar where the foam center foam pads are, the tongue depresser
will prevent the upper edge of the main spar from wiping the load transfer
pad.  After the belly pan is put in place, immediately slip the wooden
tongue depressors out from the foam pads and then realign the belly pan to
the markings that you make in the initial fit, then measure everything.  The
micro sets up fast, so you need to get the sticks out immediately.   I
spread hysol on the spar cap and on the load transfer pads where they mate
and when I aligned everything and then weighted them down, I had quite a bit
of hysol squeeze out which indicated that there was good coverage on the
mating surfaces.

Hope this helps.

Curtis Krouse N753K

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