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Old 11-14-2010, 12:44 PM
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Default RE: The Pepsi Challenge for Covering Balsa with LS


ORIGINAL: tfarmer96

ORIGINAL: 2walla

Can I suggest that you make a couple of stress risers in your test pieces- put in a couple of glue joints both parrellel and perpindicular to the grain so that you can do some flexure testing to see if it cracks over the joints. I used to paint my quickie 500 racers and tried several things to seal them up- the best thing ended up being mod podge thinned out a little bit with water. It held up great- you should try a couple test pieces with it..
This is a good idea. I was wondering what this stuff did if you bent the sheeting until it broke. Let glue some sheeting together. The photo in this post is of the 1/8 sheeting that has had the product on it for 20 hours
check this out. The wood didnt even crack.

We will see what it does in a few days.
This is exactly what I need, an airplane coated with Flubber! If I drive it into the ground it'll bounce back! It would be interesting to know after you paint it how it would hold up in the sun for a couple of hours just as if you had your model in the sun.