Steve I had E. W. (Speed) Gardenhire working for me, he had airframe license #59 (but dead now). A friend of his worked for Mooney a few years ago when they were building the M20. I beleave the glue they used was the most popular at the time, I'm just not sure of the name.
They used some type of a steel reinforced tape. They glued the skin to the ribs using tacks and the tape. The next day they pulled the tape with a real hard fast pull. This was what the people at Mooney wound up figuring out what caused the speration of the skin from the ribs. This and the fact that the glue had not cured completely. My guess on this new epoxy is that it cures in 24 hrs. and that is a big difference over the glues of the past. I think that the weight on the glued material is a far better method than all the staples, tacks etc. leaving no holes to fill. Greg Martin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Jacobs" <ask...@microlink.zm> To: "'KRnet'" <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 8:56 AM Subject: RE: KR> Staple Size > > >>>The skin actually seperated from the ribs both because of the tape > >>>and not letting the glue cure completely. > > > Please say some more about this - I cannot see how the tape will effect > the adhesive on the opposite side of the ply? > > Steve J > > > > > _______________________________________ > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html >
