I just finished recovering the right wing of my Paragon glider after a little crash last month. Once done I noticed two things that really bother me. One thing is where the polyhedral break is for thw wing. When I go to cover the outboard panels, I have nothing to tack down the inside of the monokote (side where the polyhedral break is) to except the covering on the inboard panel. I iron it over the other monokote, but then when I go to shrink the wing panel with the heat gun and give heat on or near the joint, it starts to shrivel a bit and nasty bubly looks comes through the transparent monokote as I try to shrink all the wrinkles out of the adjacent covering! The only surface I have to really tack it down to is the ribs @ the polyhedral break, but thats hardly enough area for the monokote to get a good grip. How do you pro glider builders monokote your wings then @ the poly breaks? That nasty bubble effect also seems to happen over the sheated areas of the wing. I try to pull it as tight as I can before I go to heat it, but the wringles just dont wanna go out over the sheeting. The more I heat it, the nastier it looks with the bubles and stuff forming in the monokote.

Maybee my problems are arising from using the transparent stuff but the transparent monokote is so much better for gliders IMHO. I think I am correct in my assumption that I should NOT be ironing over the sheeted areas but just tacking down the edges and heating with the heatgun? Anywyas, just wonderin how you handle the covering @ the poly break. Thanks for any help and I will try to take some pictures tomorrow.