RE: skin
BY: Ian Macaulay to Roger Marshall on Sun Aug 17 1997 08:30 pm
 > Roger, are ya still by lad?
 > 
 > When you wrap a wing or tail in film where do you leave the edge?
 > 
 > I'm doing a repair and normally i bury the joint at the hinge points. This 
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 > round that area is unaccessable because tail assembly is intact and I have 
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 > had to rebuild the rudder.  The hinges are pined and inplace.
 > 
 > 
 > allabes
 > Ian Macaulay
 > 
actually the best way I have found to handle that problem is to overlap the
monocote onto the control surface.. this is done by moving the surface away
from the side you are covering.. this will alow for movement and all you do 
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crease the monocote into the gap. this also makes for a very secure control
surface.. some people actually use this in place of actual hinges.. I
personally don't suggest this.. but it does work.. also on the more high
performance models it helps make a gapless joint that that can also eliminate
flutter..
Neil
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