"Building a Pattern Airplane" book

[AtwoodDon at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/7/2004 5:35:26 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
DGundling at compuserve.com writes:
Don Atwood:

With repect to your "Building a Pattern Model" book, in it you describe a
plane stand with adjustable arms for holding planes of various sizes and in
different ositions as needed. I have made three of them. My question is,
what did you use to pad the arms?
I have tried pipe insulation and foam insulating tape, I haven't yetcome up
with a good way to hold the padding on the arms. The pipe insulation is too
stiff. The foam tape had a sticky back, I used the sticky back and it fell
off. Tried to CA it to the arms abd it fell off. Tried nailing it to the
arms and the nail heads  chewed up everything I used the plane stand with.
Tried epoxy and that doesn't hold either. Any clues as to what works?

Thanks.

Dave
Dave, several people beat me to your question, but I have tried the 
electrical tape to hold the pipe insulation as well as zip ties.  Both will work fine.  
Another approach is to seal the inside edge of the arms where you want the 
foam to attach with epoxy or polyurethane and then use the self adhesive weather 
stripping avail at any home improvement center.  The black high density foam 
type works well.  

Thanks everyone else for your input too......

Don Atwood
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