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Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 06:45:42 -0400
From: "patrusso" <patru...@sover.net>
Subject: Re: KR> RE KR structure
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>1.8 dacron over the plywood??? I don't get it.
It's easy. You coat the bare wood with a sealer or in my case I tacked the
fabric around the edges. When the glue dried, I ironed the fabric to
taughten it up and then doped it with stits poly brush which soaked through
the fabric to the wood. That was in 1980. I painted over it with the same
carbon black primer and enamel as the rest of the plane. It's just like new
today, no problems what so ever.
>And doesn't dacron require several coats of
>nitrate then several coats of silver UV protection and then finally several
>coats of butyrate just to assure a life span of a dozen years???
No.
>Nine to twelve coats of finish is about what the process is,
It's unnecessary.
>which seems to me to be far more difficult than dealing direct with ply or
a single layer of
>glass cloth.
Glass and epoxy is heavy. 1.8 oz. dacron glider fabric is light weight.
Only problem with it is doing any sanding on it. If I was doing it again I
would first seal the bare wood with varathane and smooth sand it before
putting the fabric on.
