Bixler crash repair

by jobbzz | May 9, 2012 | (11) Posted in Projects

Hi,

About aweek ago I crashed my Bixler hard to the ground what lead to a cracked open nose and a broken vertical stabilizer. The crash starts at 4:30



The vertical stabilizer was not a problem I glued that back on with hot glue but the nose was `transformed´ into a shape which I could not glue back directly because the sides did not fit and both the sides where facing to the outside.

I solved this problem by putting the nose into boiling water this allows you to form the epo foam to straight lines again. (you could also form it round if you press it to an round surface but that was not what I needed.)


Now I could glue it back together for this part I didn't use hot glue but construction glue look at the picture

After one night the glue was dry and now my plane looks like this

this is the first flight after the crash

I hope you learned something from this.

Job

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COMMENTS

teflyer on May 12, 2012
Beautiful area to fly at! Nice Job repairing your plane!
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Number 2 on May 29, 2012
Do you have any idea about the water temp was? Just boiling,full rolling boil or somewhere in between? I was given a Bixler with a busted nose like yours. I used a hair drier to expand the foam back into shape but would occasionally over heat the foam and the pellets would over expand.
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saundw on May 10, 2012
This is why we all use foam :) Awesome!
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Benn Gunn on October 1, 2012
Great article, very informative. i have a bixler which i have just bought crash danaged to the nose... thank you
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DejaD on May 10, 2012
Very nice repair...Hot water. Foam is so forgiving sometimes. I love it.
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