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Re: Covering and finishing all of the foam

Subject: Re: Covering and finishing all of the foam
From: Dirk Rackley <vortecs@teleport.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 13:25:24
On Tue, 1 Aug 1995, Steven A Eberhart wrote:

> On 30 Jul 1995, nicholas davies wrote:
> [snip]
> > Next a few discussion points.
> >     Build time. Any advance on 2,000 hours? I've done 550 so far, I'm just
> > starting the wing trailing edges, no profiling. Rule of thumb wd. seem to 
> > be,
> > the profiling of the flying surfaces takes as long as building them. I know
that
> > professionals took 160 hours to profile a europas flying surfaces. If only
the
> > wings were pre-preg like the fuselage! I reckon that would halve the total
build
> > time. 
> [snip]
> 
> Does anyone have any experience in vacuum bagging a wing?  I have read 
> articles about R/C models using the vacuum bag technique.  The resulting 
> wing needs very little finishing.  If I remember correctly the layers are:
> foam, glass & epoxy, peel ply, absorbant blanket, mylar bag.  Pull a 
> vacuum and let cure.  Will dig out the articles and update this post with 
> something more substantial than my failing memory (next year is the big 
> 50 you know :( .
> 
> Steve
> 
> 

That's what we do here (production parts).  Are you trying to fabricate a 
new part?  Or some assembly of existing ones?  We may be able to help 
with some more details as to what is trying to be done.


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