ORIGINAL: OzMo
Co-flex? is this the same as Co-ban?
If so get it at the farm supply store, it is used to wrap horse tails etc. and it comes in colors.
Some of the guys wrap this over the foam over their battery and receiver packs.
A layer of foam around a fuse then wrap with Coban or ace wrap might help conforming to concave shapes.
I am a home health nurse and I bet there is 10 rolls of that stuff in my work car
I also like to use sand bags. I got a 5 gal bucket of sand and use baggies in diferent sizes, they conform to shapes well. Sand bags for wing sheeting was my prefered method until I made a vacuum press.
OzMo,
Same stuff. Co-Flex is what they sell for animals, but it's the same thing as Co-ban. The only real difference is that it's a LOTcheaper. WhenI cut my hand with a prop my doc wanted me to use the Co-Ban for dressing the wounds.Instead Iwent to Atwoods (farming supply store)and bought enough Co-Flex to last 10 days, for less than 4 days worth of the Co-Ban would have cost!!!! Of course Ipicked up a few extra rolls to keep around my shop as well!!!
I was wonder what that bandage that you are given after you give blood for the Red Cross [img]{akamaiimageforum}/image/s13.gif[/img] . That is some good stuff. Someone said wrapping battteries with that stuff and foam, that is not a bad idea. I'm gonna try that
This is absolutely fantastic stuff for wrapping batteries and receivers with. I used to wrap with foam and put a rubber band around it. The problem with that is that in a crash the rubber bands can break and the foam can come loose then. If you wrap with Co-Flex around your foam it won't pop loose in a crash. Plus, rubber bands get old and brittle and can break while in the fuselage.Co-Flex won't do that!!
Ken