TomKrajci 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️<p>The glider's horizontal stabilizer's paint needs scraping to remove runs and drips.</p><p>This part has a span of eight feet (2.44 meters). And I need to work on both sides.</p><p>Fortunately, the surface is convex, or flat in various locations...but it's happily not concave.</p><p>Setting up the work lights to give me specular reflections makes it easy to see and then work on the drips and runs.</p><p>I'm also learning that how I sharpen/sand the razor's edge (symmetric? asymmetric?), how I hold it (rake angle)...can make a big difference in how efficiently and effectively I can scrape away the high spots.<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rake_angle" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rake_ang</span><span class="invisible">le</span></a></p><p>The pile of shaved paint next to the razor was produced with one gentle pass...once I started figuring out sharpening geometry and rake angle. Before that, my progress was slow and required much more effort.</p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/avgeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>avgeek</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/aviation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aviation</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ElectricAircraft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElectricAircraft</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/ExperimentalAviation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ExperimentalAviation</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/homebuilt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>homebuilt</span></a><br><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Glider" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Glider</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/DIY" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DIY</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Paint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Paint</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Sand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sand</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Buff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Buff</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Polish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Polish</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@jivens" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jivens</span></a></span></p>