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littlecricket
04-16-2018, 06:21 PM
I have standard wingtips, but I want to put Josh’s landing lights in them. Anybody else done it? Looking for design ideas. Thanks.
Esser
04-16-2018, 08:16 PM
Have any pictures of the wing tips? I’m not super familiar with what they look like. If they are long enough, I can’t see why you couldn’t cut a section out and add a section for the landing light to go in with some fibre glass work...
littlecricket
04-16-2018, 09:21 PM
I’ll take pix tomorrow when I go to the shop. Thanks.
David47
04-17-2018, 06:43 AM
Mine are Hornher wingtips .... a bit longer than standard wingtips, but they don’t come with cutouts for wingtip lights. So I made my own. Some pictures for you to show how I went about it. The most difficult part is getting the shape of the aluminium alloy backing doubler and and then bonding the fibreglass box inside. Each fibreglass box I made separately in the bench using a rough Mold made up from the shape on the inside of the tip. Also, I’ve played around with Acrylic and 5 minutes in an oven at around 180-200C will allow me to form the lenses, which I haven’t done yet. So far it’s working out.
Esser
04-17-2018, 08:46 AM
Nice David! One could also bend a piece of aluminum shaped like this “ ] “ to rivet in for the light to mount to and have no fiber glass work.
David47
04-17-2018, 07:17 PM
Nice David! One could also bend a piece of aluminum shaped like this “ ] “ to rivet in for the light to mount to and have no fiber glass work.

Spot on Josh, and that was my original intention .... but I'd never done any fibreglass work before so thought I'd make life difficult for myself !! :D

Got a lot of good (and bad) experience out of this exercise, all leading up to me eventually making my own fairings for wing strut/wing junctions and landing gear junctions. I'll do this after I've got my Experimental ticket and registration.
littlecricket
04-17-2018, 08:05 PM
David that looks great!!! Thanks.

Here is my tip.
N981MS
04-18-2018, 05:05 AM
Slightly off topic. I have a lens that I got from BlueSky aviation 16 or 17 years ago. I would like to get a replacement but I can not find them. I assume they are no longer in business. If someone else took over production of these, I am sure this list is the place to find them. Does anyone know?

Left wingtip in this photo from about 15 years ago.