Hi Bud,
I have used surgical tape, made by 3M, trade name BLENDERM, for many
years on my gliders and Europa. It lasts for at least one season on a
hangared aircraft. It would not be a good choice, if you have to
disassemble the aircraft frequently. My last box of 12 rolls of 1" by 5
yards was purchased a few? years ago for $ 25.00 Canadian and had to be
brought in by my drug-store. It is semi-transparent and elastic.
My Europa is still for sale, see Peter Timm.blogspot. com. . I will be
90 in a couple of months and am happily flying my Pipistrel Taurus
self-launching glider. My Europa is becoming a hangar-queen.
A Happy New Year to you and the Europa community.
Peter Timm
On 2018-12-30, at 3:21 PM, Bud Yerly wrote:
> Same here Remi,
> As my painter said, Looks like the ass end of hard times.
> If one did not plan for using a gap filing foam tape you are stuck
with a wrinkled sticky mess.
> No matter what you use, it tends to be a pain in the neck.
>
> To get the tape to stick I have had to use paint prep cleaner (kind of
a naptha, GoofOff, degreaser/cleaner) called Prep-Sol 3919 by Axalta or
Prep-All by Kleanstrip with a very light duty scuffing pad (a graygreen
finishing pad by 3M/ Scotchbrite) . The cleaning and just a bit of
de-glossing of the 3000 grit helps the Bowlus 2 inch tape stick on quite
well even in our hot sun. I only have one client using Bowlus on his
motor glider and is not perfect but looks darned adequate and the new
buyer is reasonably happy with it. Of course we haven=92t hit any cold
weather yet either.
>
> Happy New Year,
> Bud Yerly
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> Bob, I tried the same very expensive clear Bowlus tape for sealing
those gaps last summer. This was very disappointing as there were no
measurable speed gain, it looked ugly and the tape started to get
disbonded and flapped in the breeze after a few weeks. I believe the
problem comes from the gaps which move back and forth with the flexing
of the wings. It seems to me that the Bowlus tape is too thick to handle
the stress caused by this flexing. May be a thinner and therefore more
flexible tape would do it better?
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