Re: hello starting F1D

From: <joshuawfinn_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:06:53 -0000

While I have no problem using boron, I haven't used it on any of my newer F1D's. The only place you need composites for extra strength is the wing posts, and those can be reinforced with thin strips of carbon.

-Joshua Finn

--- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "gvwezel" <gvwezel@...> wrote:
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> Oke its possilbe but i dont want to take it in the house and my wive is also againts it imay bild F1D but no use of boron.
> --- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, Jake Palmer <82.jake@> wrote:
> >
> > I started using boron when I was 16 years old. That was 18 years ago and
> > I'm still alive. You need to be careful with it, but I think the dangers
> > of boron are overblown.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 9:36 AM, mkirda_at_
> > <mkirda_at_>wrote:
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> > > **
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> > >
> > > I don't understand the fear some have of boron personally.
> > >
> > > I have kids too, 7 and 8.
> > >
> > > Put boron through Ray Harlan's glue cup with Ambroid, stick it to some
> > > masking tape, let it dry. Now it is easy to break to length. Un-useful
> > > small pieces get stuck to tape to toss. Others get put in an envelope.
> > > Vacuum after building. No worries.
> > >
> > > You can also make conventional compression ribs with balsa verticals, also
> > > 0.025" squares, or maybe 20x25 thousandths, ribs cut to 0.025" height.
> > >
> > > Regards.
> > > Mike Kirda
> > >
> > >
> > > --- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "gvwezel" <gvwezel@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Thank you mike good to try it both
> > > > I dont want to use boron .
> > > > Because i have kids and the healtcare of the familie .
> > > > There was a reading that fai will try to get f1d like the f1l and that
> > > is what i will try.
> > > > So no boron in the house
> > >
> > >
> > >
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