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New Covering Videos!!! - 6/13/2006 2:50:37 PM   
MinnFlyer



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Status: online 		Well, I finally got around to making the new covering videos that I have been promising. Here they are:

http://www.rcuniverse.com/magazine/article_display.cfm?article_id=726

These go along with the original basic covering article I did a few years ago which can be seen here:

http://www.rcuniverse.com/magazine/article_display.cfm?article_id=67

There are also 3 short videos in the "Covering" section of this Review of the Great Planes "Profile-38" located here:

http://www.rcuniverse.com/magazine/article_display.cfm?article_id=352



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RE: New Covering Videos!!! - 6/14/2006 1:31:01 AM   
rcfury



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Status: offline 		Videos look great.. I remember the small clips with with p-38 these i think are better!!!

oh yeah, the .ZIP link is bad, couldn't download it.

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RE: New Covering Videos!!! - 6/14/2006 1:40:23 AM   
JsJet



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Status: offline 		thanx man..it helped me alot!!

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RE: New Covering Videos!!! - 6/16/2006 7:37:58 AM   
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Status: offline 		Great stuff, Minn! Thanks for putting these together.

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RE: New Covering Videos!!! - 6/17/2006 3:42:20 PM   
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Status: offline 		When you said "Let's speed up the action so it won't get too boring" and the Jackety Sax song came in I could almost see Benny Hill help you cover the top of the wing!!!!

Oh and why did you remove the piece of footage where you chase some girls around the table?



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RE: New Covering Videos!!! - 6/18/2006 1:21:28 AM   
MinnFlyer



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Status: online 		Sorry, if I had videos of me chasing those girls around, I sure wouldn't POST them!

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RE: New Covering Videos!!! - 6/18/2006 2:45:09 PM   
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Status: offline 		Thanks Minn, Your original instructional helped me decide to recover an aged Piper cub, that looks great now I might add. Now I want to do something with more than one color... time to strip the old trainer I guess.

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RE: New Covering Videos!!! - 6/19/2006 3:17:27 AM   
MinnFlyer



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RE: New Covering Videos!!! - 6/19/2006 3:31:49 AM   
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Status: offline 		Minn, you make it look easy.

I seem to do OK on the bigger surfaces and square edges. The stretching over curved edges is where I mess up. Maybe I’ll improve with more practice. I saved all of the videos to my hard drive so I can refer to them when my next project is ready to cover.


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RE: New Covering Videos!!! - 6/20/2006 6:32:54 PM   
MinnFlyer



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Status: online 		Carrell, Like I said, there's no magic to it - just patience.

If you look at how I did that wingtip, notice how I didn't try to do too much at once - Heat it up, pull it around and move to the next spot. Once you've got all of the spots, you go back and do a little more, then a little more, and so on until you've covered just more than halfway.

Keep taking lots of small bites instead of two or three big ones.

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RE: New Covering Videos!!! - 6/22/2006 7:28:37 PM   
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Status: offline 		Your like the Bob Ross of heat shrink.

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RE: New Covering Videos!!! - 6/22/2006 7:51:33 PM   
onepern



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Status: offline 		Hey thanks for the vid your just in time. I'm about ready to start covering my EAA Bipe haven't covered a plane in 11 years. Need all the help I can get.
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RE: New Covering Videos!!! - 6/29/2006 5:07:59 AM   
Hobie



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Status: offline 		Thanks MinnFlyer this helped me greatly I had no idea on how to cover anything . If you got video or instructions on how to cover the fuse which seems a little harder let us all know . Here is a before and after on the Hanger 9 Twist wing . I have never covered or repaired anything before but I am happy how it turned out . Now I just need to replace and cover all the damaged covering on the fuselage which you can't see in these photos .


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RE: New Covering Videos!!! - 6/29/2006 6:36:19 PM   
MinnFlyer



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ORIGINAL: coolbean

Your like the Bob Ross of heat shrink.

Ah, if only I could live in the "Happy Little World" that Bob Ross used to paint.

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