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Anyone got any recent experience with sourcing a front LHS outer wing repair panel (lower section - obvs)? I see Moss/Rimmers etc will charge £100 plus for this small piece of metal!! Any other options?

Many thanks

David

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Far as I know they are all sourced from the same maker (non UK) so are all offered at about the same pricing from the same suspects, beat your own.

Mick Richards

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With the price of a new wing far beyond a possibility for me, and as my welding is such rubbish (Oh, how I have tried!), I decided to have a go at fixing my very peppered front wing  using a technique I had success with repairing a vintage horse box metal mudguard. Grind off as much rust as possible (both sides), then heavily paint on the inside where holes are with a good resin based paint - then roll on successive sheets of fine fiberglass matting, repainting over each sheet until well built up 3 - 5 layers. Fill the other side with ultra fine filler, sand down - finishing with p1000 of finer grade wet and dry. For the paint - POR 15 is great, but pricey, for the TR wing repair I used Upol P-88 that I happened to have lying around.

More difficult than the lower section is the area around the headlight - and there is no repair panel available for this as far as I am aware - hardly surprising - v complicated! On my wing this area was shot to pieces and not enough metal remaining to graft floppy fg tissue to, so I had to revert to zinc mesh to fashion the shape.

No idea how long the repair will last, but the horsebox repair is holding up well after 7 years, and the total cost for the TR wing repair was probably less than a tenner!

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