Wing tube needed

[Wayne Galligan]

I know this has nothing to do with ordering a c.f. tube but I wanted to relate my experience so this does not happen to anyone else.  FYI only and not a bash of the PBG tubes as these are the finest tube available..

I was using a PBG tube and found after the fact that the sleeve was porous and thus my wingtube was glued into the sleeve and ended up destroying my core.  Now I have done a bunch of these in the past and never had a problem but this one time.  You can tell by holding the sleeve up to the light and you can see the tiny pin holes in the sleeve.   
I lay my sleeves up in the cores with the wing tube in them and weight them down in the shucks to keep everything aligned properly.  Had I just glued the sleeves in by them selves the glue would have crept into the sleeve and I would have had to bore out the sleeve some how.

Wayne Galligan
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: mike mueller 
  To: discussion at nsrca.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 10:04 AM
  Subject: Wing tube needed


   I need to order a 7/8 X 30" carbon fiber wing tube set ( a good one). Where should I order it from and what should it cost? I know PAC is moving and Gator had a fire so I expect there could be a problem with supplys. Thanks, Mike


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