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| pfinn | 15-Jun-09 03:35 | | Covred tail-feathers and hinged via this method. Top to bottom, bottom to top, and so on. Don't exactly know what this method is called. Quite labor intensive. |
| jgood | 15-Jun-09 08:43 | | Interesting, Phil. What kind of glue are you using on these joints? I usually use the 'floppy disk' method, but this looks like it suits the tissue covering a bit better. |
| pfinn | 15-Jun-09 13:30 | | Since this is a polyester tissue thats completely sealed I'm using "Stix-it" (same as Balsa-loc I believe). It's a heat sensitive adhesive (like what's on the back of iron-on film coverings). Paint it on where you want it (normally one applies it to the frame to be covered) i.e. leading and trailing edges, tops and bots of ribs and so on, let it dry (5 min. or so, it's totally non-tacky in this state), use a covering iron to apply covering. What's really nice about this technique is that one can "Move" and "Pull" wrinkles or slack areas just by using the iron to re-heat and moving the covering with the iron itself before or after overall shrinking. Works great with "Poly-span" (John O!), "Lite-span", "Cover-Rite"(polyester fabric covering, perfect for "Stearmans", he he, and inexpensive too!) and such. Compatable with dope. Great with fabrics for interiors, seats, etc. Basically it's liquid hot glue. Should work fine with tissues and silkspan but I haven't tried with moistened covering, yet. |
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