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weight saving technique for fiber glassing planes? - 3/29/2012 12:06 AM   
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Status: offline 		I know I read ir somewhere on RCU and I should have remembered it BUT I didn't.
There is a product/products that you apply to the balsa before glassing to keep the epoxy from soaking into the wood. Help me out here please.

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RE: weight saving technique for fiber glassing planes? - 3/29/2012 12:38 AM   
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Status: offline 		Isayy just scrape off all the excess.... that is usually sufficient. You want some bite into the wood so the cloth and wood become one. You;ll be adding some weight with whatever your sealing with anyway right though I'm sure not as much as having the wood untreated.

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RE: weight saving technique for fiber glassing planes? - 3/29/2012 1:20 AM   
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Status: offline 		I use deft sanding lacquer and 1/2 ounce or 3/4 ounce cloth. If you watch the paint it comes out just a bit heavier then covering. My last build was a 1/4 scale Sukhoi with an 80 inch span, not a small plane. Weight of glassing was one pound. On this build I used latex paint so it too added close to a pound of weight. Very easy way to glass but it does stink!! Must be done in an open area.

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RE: weight saving technique for fiber glassing planes? - 3/29/2012 1:59 AM   
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Status: offline 		Thanks Gene that's just what I was looking for.
How ya feeling? I hope your getting better and better each and every day.

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RE: weight saving technique for fiber glassing planes? - 3/29/2012 2:26 AM   
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Status: offline 		Mike, the hart thing is a bunch better, the back is still out and I can't sit or stand very long. Next week they are going to see if they can do anything about the back. Tomorrow I will find out if I can get my lap top working so I can sit in the recliner and operate it?
You may rmember the Suk. build. It was a fun one and I enjoy glassing a sheeted plane. Still learning how to paint. Wish I could use Klass Kote on them all! {MONEY!!} As soon as I can get my back working again I have a couple of planes ready to be built. Right now I can't sit or stand over the building board but the rest of me is ready to start slathering glue!! It will either be a few of the Swoose sea planes, 3 at one build or the Ultrasport 1000. The Swoose planes will get glassed and painted, the US at this point??? I just haven't decided if I will sheet the complete plane or not.
I really do like glassing and painting though!!
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RE: weight saving technique for fiber glassing planes? - 3/29/2012 4:11 AM   
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Status: offline 		I'm doing a pylon racer, all glassed with 3/4 oz cloth and Zpoxy. Paint is limited to just a couple of stripes on the wing and no primer. I'm hoping to do it as light as film (that's a tad under 2 oz) but we'll have to wait and see.

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RE: weight saving technique for fiber glassing planes? - 3/29/2012 11:52 AM   
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I know I read ir somewhere on RCU and I should have remembered it BUT I didn't.
There is a product/products that you apply to the balsa before glassing to keep the epoxy from soaking into the wood. Help me out here please.



Balsarite for film

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