Oh yes, and check the use by date on the resin if you haven't been building
for a while.
Cheers
Ed
----- Original Message -----
From: Tony Renshaw <tonyrenshaw@ozemail.com.au>
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, o
r
> 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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