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Airplane repair and flying tips. - 11/18/2004 2:23:35 AM

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Does your plane need repairs, or maybe some work on the covering ?
Go to the RCU Magazine and check out all the cool articles. There's
something there for everyone. click here]

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RE: Airplane repair and flying tips. - 7/18/2005 10:34:27 PM

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May I ADD. start asking the fellows at the flying field, they are the old time experts in most cases, they have been there and done it before ARF's. dick

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RE: Airplane repair and flying tips. - 10/18/2005 12:24:42 AM

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Might add that RCU has BIT the Dust. no longer in publication. save those old issues for reference. they got caught in the money shuffle. sure will miss the articles by Ken Runstrand and the others. dick

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RE: Airplane repair and flying tips. - 10/18/2005 3:33:16 AM

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RCM bit the dust, not RCU.

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RE: Airplane repair and flying tips. - 10/20/2005 3:30:40 PM

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MY ERROR, the old fingers don't operate like the brain tells them to do anymore. can still slice balsa more than the fingers. ouch. dick stamm

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RE: Airplane repair and flying tips. - 10/20/2005 6:29:14 PM

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Dick, I understand the problem completely. I never let "my fingers do the walking" as I've learned they are not always walking where I want them to go. I read about your losses on another thread and want to extend my condolences. Hope you and your wife are healthy and comfortable.
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RE: Airplane repair and flying tips. - 10/20/2005 6:57:47 PM

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thanks or the kind words. we are better off than a lot of the folks in the Bay St. Louis area, they are still waiting for Fema Trailers and help from the Federal Govt, the local goverments are totally strapped, all their facilities, equipment were lost also, including manpower. however the Mississippi Gulf Coast will ARISE again. the guys are telling me that our flying field is being used as a dumping ground for the debre by the county. will send phots when and if I learn how to orerate my new camera, sure miss my old one, good old floppy style. dick

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RE: Airplane repair and flying tips. - 10/31/2005 1:11:23 PM

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ORIGINAL: dicknadine

Might add that RCM has BIT the Dust. no longer in publication. save those old issues for reference. they got caught in the money shuffle. sure will miss the articles by Ken Runstrand and the others. dick

Does anyone know if someone will carry the plans they use to offer or can they still be bought? That stinks!!!! RCM was a class act.

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RE: Airplane repair and flying tips. - 12/27/2005 4:26:29 AM

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Eh, the only repair article I found was the sheeting repair which I found extremely helpful now I do my covering repairs in a similar fashion (instead of the bed I stretch the covering about 0.5cm in each direction over the old covering. The other steps and advice helps remove sagging in the repaired covering.

I was wondering if anyone haad tip on repairing damaged ribs without adding too much weight. I tried reinforcing from both sides (too much weight) then from one side (lasted about one crash longer than doublesided reinforcements) but simply ripping them out and placing new ones resulted in a weak repaired rib.

I would also like to contribute a tip myself. On my second trainer (I still have a beat up wing from it) I was able to destroy a section of the leading edge during a crash. My solution was quite simple. I chopped out a generous section of the leading edge spar along with the damaged sheeting. I then filled the whole first third of the wing with high expansion foam from Home Depot I sanded off the excess foam and covered it with packing tape (It was late evening stores were closed, I wanted to fly the next day, and I had no covering) THe reapair lasted through the rest of the plane's life (I got it used and the hinges finally came loose becausee of fuel-soaked balsa).

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RE: Airplane repair and flying tips. - 10/17/2006 7:01:17 AM

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yes, ask the fogees like me and i can tell you all about the good ol' kit days.

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RE: Airplane repair and flying tips. - 11/28/2006 4:09:01 AM

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Hi There

I have covering comming off my plane at the seams. I want to find some good clear fuelproof tape to hold the covering on. I can't seem to find any. I would think that there must be some out there but can't find it. Can anyone help me. Thank You, Fred

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RE: Airplane repair and flying tips. - 11/28/2006 12:13:54 PM

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If the seams are coming up, just clean the area with alcohol and stick it down with CA

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RE: Airplane repair and flying tips. - 1/11/2007 2:56:51 AM

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This may be a new post but fits here. I am new to RC. On a couple of my planes, the covering is peeling along the edges and where it wraps over the edge of the wing. I had ironed it but now the ironing does no good since glow fuel and other contaminants prevent it from sticking down again. Is there any easy fix for this. I know that it is a common problem, it just has to be....

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RE: Airplane repair and flying tips. - 1/11/2007 4:11:43 AM

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Do as MinnFlyer said in the post above you.

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RE: Airplane repair and flying tips. - 1/11/2007 4:27:03 AM

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Thanks Campy, I will try that. I thought CA would affect the color of the covering.

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RE: Airplane repair and flying tips. - 2/9/2007 8:22:30 PM

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I also heard clear nail polish works really well for this. I haven't tried it myself yet, but it's worth a try.

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RE: Airplane repair and flying tips. - 3/2/2007 9:11:42 PM

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Use a pin or very thin wire to apply the thin CA to the seam. Much easier to avoid getting runs and streaks this way. Just remove the cap off the CA bottle and dip the pin or wire in to get a small droplet and touch the seam. It helps to position the piece so the CA will run downward along the seam.

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RE: Airplane repair and flying tips. - 4/1/2007 5:49:24 PM