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Old 04-22-2006, 08:58 PM
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Default RE: Japanese silk tissue question

Hi
I have a question.
I'm just getting back into stick and tissue after 30 years
Any way I have been experimenting with panels, before I actually dope up my plane.
So I doped the wood test frame 1.5"x 5" with nitrate dope two coat put down the tissue doped it down to the wood.
When it dried I wet it with damp water and it shrunk tight when it dried.
The problem I had was when I brushed the nitrate dope on the covering to seal it, the tissue went all loose from the wet dope.
When the dope dried it was not as tight as before.
Any tips to prevent this? Am I pressing to hard with the brush and stretching the tissue?
I'm using Sig brand dope.

Thanks
Glen