what kind of covering works best over obeche wood?
01-22-2012, 07:31 PM
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what kind of covering works best over obeche wood?
Hello all . What kind of covering works best over the obeche wood skins?? was just trying to remove some bubbles and made it worse . finally got one side of wing to settle down but peeled the covering off of the top of the wing so now it needs to be replaced. I tried some monocote but was struggeling with it . I was going tomorrow to buy some ultracots.. any suggestions??
01-23-2012, 11:09 AM
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RE: what kind of covering works best over obeche wood?
It is common practice when using plastic covering over wood skins to use a "woodpecker" to pierce holes in the wood skins to allow air to escape to prevent bubbles. Any plastic covering you use will have the same problems as far as air bubbles over wood skins.
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RE: what kind of covering works best over obeche wood?
ORIGINAL: Bozarth
But is it really worth the effort? Most of us gave up silk and dope in the 1970s and never looked back.
Kurt
But is it really worth the effort? Most of us gave up silk and dope in the 1970s and never looked back.
Kurt
01-25-2012, 05:40 AM
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RE: what kind of covering works best over obeche wood?
Well it looks like heat was the issue thanks for the replies. I ended up using oracover parklight covering. Worked well. A little transparent but nice. This is for the Hobby Lobby Dago Red "pylon" racer. Anyone flying this low dollar speed freak?
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RE: what kind of covering works best over obeche wood?
The Oracovre/ Ultra-coat is good stuff. The parklight stuff is OK on a speed plane as long as it doesn't have to span an open bay or frame work. If you try that, you could have a disaster in the sky.
