Re: [RCSE] Best "little" Tip - what's yours?

2007-11-08 Thread Harley Michaelis
Mike your explanation clarifies what Dennis is saying. Thank You. Mike Lachowski wrote: Most molded wings have a skin that is a sandwich of cloth, core, cloth. Emrald was probably glass, rohacell, glass. Some models use balsa cores and others use herex (another type of foam) cores. Then yo

Re: [RCSE] Best "little" Tip - what's yours?

2007-11-08 Thread Mike Lachowski
Most molded wings have a skin that is a sandwich of cloth, core, cloth. Emrald was probably glass, rohacell, glass. Some models use balsa cores and others use herex (another type of foam) cores. Then you get the expensive stuff with CF skins or even CF both sides of the skin Rohacell a

Re: [RCSE] Best "little" Tip - what's yours?

2007-11-08 Thread Harley Michaelis
Let me fix my errors lest I further confuse the issue. Harley Michaelis wrote: Dennis. . . such tips are surely encouraged for this exchange. Thank you. This one is a bit confusing. You speak of a "molded wing" in the first sentence, but later speak of lifting the "foam" to the skin. I admit

Re: [RCSE] Best "little" Tip - what's yours?

2007-11-08 Thread Harley Michaelis
Dennis. . . such tips are surely encourages for this exchange. Thank you. This one is a bit confusing. You speak of a "molded wing" in the first sentence, but later speak of lifting the "foam" to the skin. I admit to ignorance of the construction of the Emerald wing, but is it both molded and

[RCSE] Best "little" Tip - what's yours?

2007-11-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At our club meeting last night, I was showing an Emerald that had a little delamination on the molded wing. When asking the best way to fix it, Martin Doney passed on a tip he had learned. It's a small thing but it really works great. He said to take a tee pin and bend the tip 90 degrees about 1