Re: Outlines

From: Steve Brown <rtxc_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 01:48:42 -0000

Try bending the wood around women's hair curling irons. They are
available in various sizes up to about 1.5" and you can make all
sorts of shapes and combinations of shapes. Remember to bend
everything a little further than the target shape and then block in
position until the wood is completely dry, say 2-3 hours.

--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "f_daddi" <f_daddi_at_y...>
wrote:
>
> DUHH,
> Just made some 1 /32 square outlines for an A sized airplane, kind
of
> an EZ A. The questions are:
>
> 1) how does one keep the outlines from springing back? This
happenend
> on some formed ribs too. They straightened a little.
> 2)Can I use the slightly sprung tips and fin using the ribs to
keep the
> shape?
>
> I uses 1/16 balsa forms, soaked the 1/32 sq for 20 min and baked
the
> forms with sq stock attached with scoth tape for 15 min at 200
deg.
>
> thanks guys.
>
> Fred
>
Received on Mon Jan 02 2006 - 17:49:41 CET