Building a Great Lakes Sport 2T Sport Trainer

Great Lakes 2T1A-VR I-ESON
"the Outatime Flyer"

March 6th - 2008

The fabric on the stabilizers is dry and some ironing made it tight enought so we can start rib lacing.
After marking the fabric, First step is to stick reinforcing tapes all along the ribs, then lacing starts rib by rib.

After lacing the ribs, dacron tapes have to be glued to cover the laces and all along the edges, both trailing and leading; this give some more strenght and gives the final look to the piece.

Sticking 1/2" reinforcing tapes over the ribs

For an expert hand this is just a simple and repetitive task...

Dacron tape being glued over the laced ribs

The stabilizers starts looking like a finished part.

Dacron tape goeas all along the leading edge.

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