Originally posted by Darrinc
One question,
What are you doing to the 1/16" balsa to keep it from absorbing to much resin? My experiance shows me that the balsa acts like a sponge.
Darrin C
I think I can answer this for you since I'm Mike's brother and I was the extra set of hands while laying up the wing, which is MINE!
The peel-ply basically sucks up all the extra resin that is atop the balsa while being forced down in the vacuum. As you noticed there also is some paper towels used there, which are basically a breather, but when you pull the peel ply out, its generally got a LOT of epoxy on it..
I'm sure I can be wrong and my brother will elaborate.. I worked on the wing today and took some pics with the camera, and I'm sure he'll post them later tonite!
Chris