Mark I won't get to it today, just too hot. The only reason that I am going to try it is the paint job. If it was unpainted it would be a no brainier. The other thing that I did that we had talked about was you were saying about your cowl lifting at the rear, I laid 2 more layers of uni cloth 1 1/2" wide along the back perimeter to stiffen it up/ and as it cured I put a little reverse bow in between the screw holes so it had to sit tight. Joe On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 12:52:30 -0500 "Mark Langford" <n5...@hiwaay.net> writes: > I should also mention that I'd put in a "bleeder layer" of paper > towels > directly above the bubble, then a layer of builder's plastic (to > keep the > topsoil bag from sticking), and then weighted the topsoil bag with > 70 pounds > of gasoline cans. I really thought that would work, but only one of > three > was anywhere near "close enough", and the other two have now been > cut out > and patched, with excellent results. It's amazing how quickly > little > repairs like that go, when you're not talking about doing something > as huge > as an entire wing or something. Vacuum bagging would be the > intelligent way > to do this, obviously. > > A post mortem of the patches revealed no two part urethane foam, > just a > fracture of the foam about an eighth of an inch deep, so the glass > had a > good connection to the foam, but the foam itself broke. The only > cure I > can think of for that would be to use 4 pound Lastofoam instead of 2 > pound > urethane, but that's a high price to pay when you're talking about > the whole > airplane. I am using Lastofoam to build my baggage area behind the > seats > though. > > Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama > see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford > email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net > > > _______________________________________ > 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 > >
Joe Horton, Coopersburg, PA. joe.kr2s.buil...@juno.com
