This page deals with the education sections of the plans. I am writing this, 7 years after I started my project and I have sleep a few times since then. You can get the jest of what I did here. You can also look around the Web and see what the others have done too.
Like everyone else, I read over the education section to gain some clue as to building this plane, and the use of fiberglass and epoxies. I built the education section projects the simple lay up, the structural part and the bookend. Looking back now at those projects the work quality was pretty bad, be even so the structural part was able to with stand a 320 pound man standing on it. I gain a little knowledge then moved on to building my worktable and hotbox for my epoxy.
I built the table 4 feet by 12 feet out of 5/8 particleboard, with 2x6 out side frame. All assembly was done with drywall screws. I started out with strait and clear framing lumber for the outside frame. Then cut particleboard cross members to support the top and bottom skins of the table and installed on 16-inch centers. I then screwed the tops on with drywall screws after pre-drilling the holes and using a countersink, did not want the screws sticking up. I turned the table over and did the same thing on the bottom. When I was done, I had a very large, heavy and ridged table to build on. The nice part about building a table with two skins is you can flip it over and have a new surface to work on, also the skins can be removed and flipped when both sides of the table are trashed.
Hotbox was built close to the plans but I made the top and front hinged, the front so I could dispense the epoxy and the top so I could refill the epoxy pump. I could not find a thermostat that would work, but found that a 40-watt bulb would keep the epoxy at about 100 deg depending on the outside temperature.
The glass storage cabinet is pretty close to what was in the plans, I used Formica on the inside of the door and made a set of hinged legs that support the cabinet door when open to give an area to cut glass.