"Building a Pattern Airplane" book

[Wayne Galligan]

As a side note to the insulation thing.  Stay away from the real soft black
insulating foam.  I have found that it will stick to paint jobs or even
stain them especially if its very hot... like here in Texas in August.

Wayne G.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Ferrell" <johnferrell at earthlink.net>
To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 1:23 PM
Subject: Re: "Building a Pattern Airplane" book


> All pipe insulation is not equal. The commercial folks spend a little more
> and us the Armstrong brand name. It is a lot softer thant the discount
store
> stuff. If you pull the cable ties/bailing wire tight enough it will sink
> into the foam and not scratch the airplane. Before you make the arms
select
> the foam. You will get a better fit...
>
> John Ferrell
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Gundling" <DGundling at compuserve.com>
> To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 8:21 PM
> Subject: Re: "Building a Pattern Airplane" book
>
>
> 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
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