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Old 11-27-2011 | 05:29 AM
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Default RE: Need some ideas on putting balsa on foam wings.

Hi Irish.

WOW!! What did you do to lose the weight? I need to shed about the same amount.

His instructions call for the slow cure epoxy followed by the, I believe they call them the "shucks". The foam that remains from the large block that the wing blanks were cut from. He puts these down on a long flat table top, puts the wings with the skins set, then sandwiches the wing core within these "shucks". (I hope that's right.. the name that is). Then he puts a straight plank over that and then about 50 pounds of bricks on top of the plank. He said the more weight the better. Then he leaves it set up for a day before he removes everything.

Dick.