Re: Rudder Failure - builder error!

Posted by Frogsider on
URL: http://uk-hbbr-forum.61.s1.nabble.com/Rudder-Failure-builder-error-tp3338284p3338693.html

Thanks to you both above for your advice and suggestions.  I'm not sure I want to do all the glass and epoxy build-up, and cooking the stock sounds a bit complicated.

Slicing through the stock is potentially workable, but I've now realised I would then have to buy new rudder fittings to fit the much thicker rudder stock.

What do you think of having a plain steel or aluminium plate cut of, say, 6mm thickness, then skinning it with thin ply, bonded on with epoxy, profiled and shaped at the edges to match the old blade?  Can you bond ply direct to metal?