Their is no sanding or singing with Diehl skins. Rich Parker Greenfield NH
> On Mar 6, 2014, at 8:25 AM, "ol' weirdo" <wmiweir at gmail.com> wrote: > > So I phoned Titan to ask them how they do it in their Tornado and this is > what they said. The Wing is conventional metal from the metal builtup main > spar to the rear spar with metal ribs and the aluminum skin riveted > thereon. The front of the wing has foam ribs with the skin glued onto them. > I missed asking about the skin. Is there separate skin back to the main > spar or does one skin cover to the rear spar? > > Anyway, it seems to me that one might build a KR with the wing skinned with > plywood over foam from the front spar to the rear spar and aluminum over > foam for that part of the wing. I think it would be legitimate to use > screws to attach the aluminum to the spar because it is doubtful if one > could obtain an acceptable glue based attachment. I guess this would make > the ac more Taylor than KR. > > To argue further, wouldn't skinning with aluminum be as legitimate as using > Deihl skins? > > But the sanding song is important to the KR culture. > > Bill Weir > _______________________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://tugantek.com/archmailv2-kr/search. > To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to KRnet-leave at list.krnet.org > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change > options
