Before you spit, slosh some coke around in your mouth and it really works.
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 10:00 PM, jannis1indoor <jannis1indoor_at_yahoo.com>wrote:
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> Art,
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> I make up a solution of water and some spit and just run a brush over the
> rib at the dihedral joint and this will pull all the loose film together.
> This how we did to 30-40 years ago with microfilm and it also works with OS
> film.
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> Jeff Annis
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> --- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, "art" <upwind120_at_...> wrote:
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> > ...maybe a dumb one.
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> > 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)?
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> > a.
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