Mike,
In your instructions for Art, are you applying the adhesive to take up
the slack onto the top or the bottom of the film? Just trying to clarify?
Fred Rash
On 8/25/2013 9:01 AM, mkirda_at_sbcglobal.net wrote:
>
> Hi Art.
>
> Cover the wing flat. When you add the tip dihedral, let the joints dry
> well. Use a brush dipped in whatever adhesive you used to adhere the
> film (I use very thin rubber cement) and paint the adhesive next to
> the rib on the baggy side. The OS film will draw right up and become
> almost taut. Let dry for a few hours.
>
> Tips being flat rather than ribs is to reduce the tip drag as I
> understand it.
>
> Regards.
> Mike Kirda
>
> --- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:Indoor_Construction%40yahoogroups.com>, "art" <upwind120_at_...>
> wrote:
> >
> > ...maybe a dumb one.
> >
> > I'm learning how to use good film. I have a new Banks LPP wing and
> want to use OS on it. I can handle a tailored dihedral joint using
> Esaki or condenser paper and they come out pretty neat, but this won't
> be possible (for me, anyway) with film. I have a choice between baggy
> panels on either, or both, sides of the joint, or making the dihedral
> break rib flat instead of curved and getting a nice taut job of it.
> I've noticed that the tip ribs on most indoor planes are flat (Hangar
> Rats being an exception). Is this for aerodynamic reasons, or
> structural?? And If the dihedral joint is made the same way would it
> wreck anything? Is a small area of the wing with a taut flat airfoil
> worse or better than the same area curved but baggy (which would
> render the curve uncontrolled)?
> >
> > a.
> >
>
>
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