How do you get plans to lie flat?
01-30-2006 | 02:42 PM
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RE: How do you get plans to lie flat?
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02-04-2006 | 02:57 AM
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RE: How do you get plans to lie flat?
Whenever needed, I have always put my plans between an ironing board and a sheet and ironed away.
The distortion between the wood in kits and the plans is due to the humidity that effects the Wood, not the plans. The wood expands and contracts a great deal more than paper. And whenever possible, Do build on plans. Measuring and marking points to transfer to a building surface just isn't accurate. But if for some reason you must, make sure all longitude measurements start from the same spot, same for latitude. If you pull, say wing tip to rib-9 (4inches), then rib-9 to rib-8 (4 inches), etc.. You lose accuracy and your wing panels have more of a chance to be asymmetrical with one another. You should measure wingtip to rib-9 (4 inches) then wingtip to rib-8 (8 inches) and so on.
DM
The distortion between the wood in kits and the plans is due to the humidity that effects the Wood, not the plans. The wood expands and contracts a great deal more than paper. And whenever possible, Do build on plans. Measuring and marking points to transfer to a building surface just isn't accurate. But if for some reason you must, make sure all longitude measurements start from the same spot, same for latitude. If you pull, say wing tip to rib-9 (4inches), then rib-9 to rib-8 (4 inches), etc.. You lose accuracy and your wing panels have more of a chance to be asymmetrical with one another. You should measure wingtip to rib-9 (4 inches) then wingtip to rib-8 (8 inches) and so on.
DM
