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I understand you stripping to your shorts in the summer but if you want to impress everyone on here come over and fly like that before Spring's here. New flap glued up but looks like I'm not gonna make my self imposed deadline tonight. The inboard sheeting top and bottom of the horizontal stabs is funkier than I first thought. Combination of (I think) getting wet at some point and sanded a bit too thin. Ripped it all off and scarfed new wood on. Oh well, it gets done when it gets done. I'm just chomping at the bit to build something different. |
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Different flap lengths, and different grain qualities? Weird!!
Sounds like sound logic to replace it Sean. Just be thankful Hoss has the avatar he does, and not the avatar he could have of himself hurling a glider up into the sky while freeballing. Funny thing about clothes and flying; I would only go flying in a certain set of clothes, dunno why, just did, doesn't make sense either, so I can understand JW lamenting the loss of his favorite flying britches. We are so far south it's to cold for the storm to become anything but rain, Mr.G. but at least I have tailwinds from it!!- be off again Wednesday to Denmark. Oh that's Denmark WA, not the country in Europe! |
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woodie news...
Ok, hopefully this will help this thread get back on track...
Portland Area Sailplane Society held the first of four "February Floater" contests today (every Sunday of the month). 15 ships flew and I think about 8 or 9 were woodies: Oly's (a III and I think a II), a borrowed Aquila, Pierce Paragon, Spirit, my Marauder ES, modified BOT, and several I can't remember. The others were Ava's and Topaz's. Cold (mid to high 40's), breezy, and overcast. Task was Poker (five rounds, times rounded to nearest minute and then figure the best hand: four of a kind, full house, straight, etc.), landing was in a 100' diameter circle (any part of the glider inside qualified), land out of the zone and suffer a 5% penalty in time. Surprisingly, there was lift, acted like wave being generated off of buildings and tree lines upwind: find the band of lift, turn into the wind and try to park it there. The task made for an interesting time coming up with a strategy. The top 6 all ended with four of a kind. Four 5's, 4 high earned me fifth place. The Paragon was ahead of me (I think second) and another woodie was in fourth (sorry, can't remember what it was, other than rudder/elevator only and his score was four 6's 6 high). All in all: it was fun, challenging and different! It was enjoyable seeing all that wood in the air, plus seeing more wood than high tech carbon! Next Sunday will be more of the same. Here's hoping the weather will be better! Scott |
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I think I was more happier that I made all of my landings, I flew smoothly, and made a minimum of mistakes, plus I took my ship home intact. It was a challenging day. Scott |
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Yup, live in the mid-cities. Roy's toys for big boys is in Hurst. This place is the best, I'm not sure about their order processing and shipping though. Here's their site- http://www.royshobby.com/ |
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My initial attempts on the O3, inner panel bottom was strip and redo . I cut and placed the film stretching and tacking the perimeter with an iron, it looked great at that point and wasn't even shrunk yet...a piece of cake...NOT! As soon as I hit it with my gun, it expanded huge, bagged and wrinkled. Oh, dumbass me thought it would shrink instead of growing and inch in length . OK, all cleaned up ready for the second try. Being an engineer and working with wet and dry film applications all my life, I decided to warm (expand the film) first then tack down, it should counter this problem. Same sh_t, gun or iron, it just grows huge and bags!!!!. Cold iron, hot iron, didn't matter! Watching myself rip off and throwing $$$ in the trash was killing me...I started to drink . After a shot of brown liquor and a couple beers , I decided to work it in one direction. Starting at the leading edge, I ironed it down in linear passes over the sheeting until I reached the open bays. Even this process generated a wave of expanded film in front of my iron and was hard to deal with. Pulling and ironing now from the TE to combat the wave gave me slight bags over the open bays. Hit the bags with the gun and they shrunk up tight. The finished under side of the one wing looks better than my ARF's but took me 7 hours yesterday to complete. What am I doing wrong??? Or, did I discover the technique to apply sh_tty film?? I have watched videos and those are the things I tried first. Any suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated. Don |
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Which brand of film are you using? I've always used the perimeter tack method, followed by a gun to shrink it drumhead tight and have never had the issues you had.
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I've read a lot about Monokote issues, but have never had any. If you try to shring just the wrinkle, you'll overshrink one spot and undershring areas around it. I try to look at which way I need to shrink and work areas adjacent to the wrinkle along with the wrinkle, itself. I usually cover an entire panel in one piece, tacking the center to the trailing edge, then wrapping it around with the seam at the leading edge., bottom first. I always use lotsa heat... carefully... I keep reading about bad material. Other than a few splotchy areas in transparent green, I haven't had a problem.
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