RCU Forums - View Single Post - Sheeting foam cores
View Single Post
Old 12-30-2002, 11:59 PM
  #6  
Vince
Senior Member
My Feedback: (1)
 
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Nederland, Tx.
Posts: 1,642
Likes: 0
Received 1 Like on 1 Post
Default Sheeting foam cores

Whatever you do, do not use 3M #77 spray adhesive. I am repairing the right inner wing panel of a G&P P38 that I bought at Bomber field in September. I discovered a soft spot under the sheeting and pulled off the sheeting to discover a melted area the size of a grapefruit. Yep the guy who started this plane used 3M #77, and it ate the foam. I never liked 3M #77 for sheeting wings, but I also never heard of it eating foam, that is until I read about it in this forum. Seems the new formula has a foam eating solvent in it, I could still smell it.

Vince