The repair of my T is well underway, although it won’t be ready this weekend as I hoped, as last weekend was spend building a nice new work bench in the garage.

With the bench done, it was time to get beck to the foil repair, and building a new T. The new T adopts a completely different approach to the last one. The T’s are cut out of a large, very thick slab of carbon, instead of being two L’s which form the T. You can see the difference in the two photos, with the new T’s sitting in place, prior to trimming and gluing in.

As you can see they are very thick this time around and are engineered to be significantly stronger, through different fibre orientation than the old one. The main reason they can be so much thicker is that these T’s will replace the outer skins on the vertical, and not sit inside them, just like my nationals quick fix.

It is also interesting to see how much the foil has “aged” since it was originally glued together … I think that a coat of paint and some polishing is in order.