Re: Re: Rubber Stripper

From: Bill Gowen <b.gowen_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 11:46:06 -0500

I'm having the same problem with my stripper. Mine was perfect until I dropped it last spring. I sent it back to Ray and when I got it back it wouldn't cut all the way through 100% of the time. Ray worked on it at Lakehurst and improved it somewhat. I'm going to sharpen the blades again to see if that helps.

If all is perfect you should get reliable cuts. If you get your problems worked out don't do something stupid like I did.

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: calgoddard
  To: Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com
  Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2006 9:57 AM
  Subject: [Indoor_Construction] Re: Rubber Stripper


  Thanks Marty and Gary:

  Do either of you see any serious potential problems using (in
  competition) the rubber that I had to lightly tear apart?

  I will see if I can detect (via microscope) any differences between
  the edges of the clean cut rubber compared to the "torn" rubber. If
  so I will test wind specimens of the two different types on our
  torque meter to see if they vary significantly with regard to their
  break points in terms of max winds and highest torque.

  I stripped about twenty feet of good rubber, which we could always
  use for fun flies, but hope it is still good for contests. Half of
  this batch of good rubber remains in unstripped condition.

  Thanks,

  Calgoddard

  --- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, dgbj@... wrote:
>
> "Anyway, sometimes the thickness of the rubber (as opposed to the
  width)
> seems to vary so that I have to tear apart the two cut sections
  after
> they have been ejected from the pinch rollers."
>
> Cal,
>
> If there is a web between the two pieces of rubber, the cutting
  wheel faces
> are not in contact. You need to adjust the cutting wheels to
  lightly touch
> each other. The non cranked wheel has a flat brass spring on the
  opposite
> side from the crank that has a tightening screw. Tighten the screw
  just enough
> to feel a little bit of drag when turning the crank.
>
> When I first got the Harlan stripper I found the strip width did
  not
> correspond to the dial setting. I measured with my 0.01" scale
  and estimated a
> formula for the setting. After stripping about a dozen motors of
  different
> widths I plotted a graph of dial setting against strip width.
  This gave me an
> exact formula for setting the dials to get the width I wanted.
>
> Gary Hinze
>
>
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>



   

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