Hi! Tony.
What's wrong with double sided adhesive tape?
Unfortunately I haven't the memory grade to remember about the locations
etc, but I reckon you can "steal a march" in some places by application of
peel ply in the area of a known cut line for
later connections. However the peel ply certainly makes cutting more
difficult and if you need to
remove it from under a completed skin it's very difficult to get the skin
re-attached to the foam
again so some accurate positioning is called for.
Regards
Bob Harrison G-PTAG
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From: owner-europa@post.aviators.net
Subject: Classic TE Skin
Gidday,
I have been in the wilderness for a while and am only recently back to the
fold. For want of explanation, I figured I could never get my Classic done,
so I bought a little Australian a/c known as the Victa Airtourer, which for
the last 40 years give or take has been the primary trainer for the
Australian and New Zealand Air Forces. The problem is that they reengined
it to double the horsepower to 200 HP give or take and mine is 100! It is a
flying brick and when I took my dad for a fly, with "foolishly" full fuel,
23 degrees Celsius and a little turbulence, well I got the fright of my
life to be 5 miles south of the field after takeoff and still battling the
turbulence to be 500 feet above the ground to turn crosswind. I vowed then
that I would get back into the workshop and get the a/c built that I truly
want to fly, away from the hard stuff quickly.
So now that I have repented my sins I would like to request advice from
those classsic guys who can tell me whether in 2 days time I should or
shouldn't put peel ply under the trailing edge cloth/skin in the areas that
will become closeouts, to ease the preparation of the skin underside prior
to doing the closeout layups. This means the entire area for the last
couple of inches of the aileron portion or a strip 1 1/2" wide 4 inches
---From the trailing edge, and 1 1/2" wide 5 inches from the trailing edge of
the flap portion. I can either layup the entire sections aft of this strip
on peel ply, or have the peel ply act as a bridge from foam to foam. If as
I suspect the peel ply is the way to go, and as I have special "thin
stuff", should I just go ahead and lay it ontop of a mico slurried core, or
ontop of a pre-microed and cured strip, or bond the peel ply with 5 minute
araldite in isolated places? I am somewhat worried about wrinkles, but I
know the skin is strong and stable and that the peel ply is very thin. So
that is my questions for today, and its good to be back!!
Reg
Tony Renshaw
Reg
Tony Renshaw
Builder No.236
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