Iv'e worked on composite materials since the 50's and the only way this ever happens is with dissimilar thicknesses in your resin attachment points.In other words keep all fillets and wraps equal top to bottom,side to side,whatever. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Heath" <da...@alltel.net> To: <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 8:47 PM Subject: KR> Still building Ailerons
> Well, no paint on the wings yet. I am hung up on these ailerons. There is > much more finishing and sanding and filling, than I thought there would > be. > And now, I find that my old weights will not balance to 100%, so I am > going > to have to make new ones. What a bummer. Would it not be really nice to > just > have to do something, just one thing, just one time and be done with it? > > I have found out one thing about the warping on the ailerons. Ours are as > if > you had cut them out of Dan Diehl wing skins. They sat in the garage and > shop for over 3 months with no warping. As soon as I installed the spar in > them, they started warping. So, I took them in the house and the warping > stopped and even returned to mostly straight. So, I am keeping them in the > house until they get installed just before the plane goes to the airport. > I > am hoping that covering them with paint, will stop the warping, but if it > is > heating and cooling, then I have no chance and I still will never > understand > why it happens to me and Jerry and not to all the ailerons out there. > > Anyway, a few more weeks of this sillyness and I can get on to the real > stuff. Our upholstery is almost finished and I am really pummpped about > seeing how it is going to look when it is all installed > > Keep on building cause the YYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAWWWWWWWSSSSSSSS are > waiting. > > See N64KR at http://KR-Builder.org - Then click on the pics > > There is a time for building and a time for FLYING and the time for > building > has expired. > > Daniel R. Heath - Columbia, SC > > See you in Mt. Vernon - 2005 - KR Gathering > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html >
