>What are opinions on whether the flanges and trailing edges should be hard
>clamped? Rather than conjecture from those who have yet to bake has anyone
>baked without clamping the edges and lived to regret it?
We baked 'XDY in a friends car spray booth oven (together with Bob Fairall's
G-BXLK). None of the closeouts edges were clamped and we had no problems
with any of them. One word of caution though. When I made my regular trips
into the ovens stiffling heat, it was noticeable how much hotter all the
metal parts were compared to the composite parts, in fact they were barely
touchable. I just wonder if there might be problems in clamping the edges
with great lengths of presumably metal tubing etc.
Dave Watts. 'XDY
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