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The
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Hi Folks!
Here we are at that time of year we've
either been waiting for or dreading all year long. Most of us are so
filled from our Thanksgiving dinner that we are having a hard time moving,
and the club's Christmas Dinner is but a week away (Thursday, 1 December,
6 p.m. at Daisy Maes). Seriously, please let Mick Fox know as soon
as possible if you and/or a spouse are attending.
The Christmas Holiday season appears to
be upon us; the television folks are already playing the standard
Christmas movies, the stores have had decorations on their shelves for the
last 120 days, and you need to have a reservation to get into Wall Mart!
Don't forget to make your reservations
for the upcoming AMA convention, 13-15 January in Ontario, California
(sorry Bart).
By the way, Dave Fields, our new
webmaster tells me that our new website is currently up and running at www.mmrccinc.com.
This is a mirror of our current web site for the time being, until Dave
completes the new site. You can reach Dave at Bollin Field on
weekends or at dave@ddenterprise.com.
This month's article is on working with
carbon fiber, and if you haven't noticed we have several local experts,
Like Jerry West and Meyer Gutman who use this miracle stuff in most of
their aircraft (and air boats).
Working
with Carbon Fiber
by John Oldencamp
Carbon fiber, in various forms, continues
to inundate our building schedules, with the results improving as
experience escalates. The best course appears to be using small pieces in
critical areas, applied with adhesives already proven by the people who
sell the stuff and live with it every day.
Composite Structures Technology suggests,
for example, that its .002 sheet laminate performs best when laminated
with their Bob Smith Thick Cyanoacrylate glue.
This sounded a little
strange at first, but it does work extremely well for laminating to both
sides of sheetwood, for stripping (trailing edges, spars) and also for
capping ribs.
My discovery was in first cleaning the
material with acetone or denatured alcohol, spraying the carbon sheet or
caps with accelerator, then carefully positioning and placing the
components.
For the balsa sheet-carbon laminates, the
plan was initially to rip them out on a diamond blade saw, but miracle of
miracles, a common "utility" knife does the job effortlessly and
without waste.
However, the straight
edge and the laminate itself must be taped down prior to running a cut.
Blue painter’s tape works great for this.
Cut lengths can be edge-sanded prior to
installation. Cap strips are first cut to width, then sprayed, positioned,
and rubbed down with waxed paper squares protecting fingers.
from The Bat Sheet
Ted Ballin, editor
4026 L Ave #A
Anacortes WA 98221
Until next month, have
a great holiday season, and don't re-kit anything!
Bill.
Club Meeting
This month will not be a regular meeting.
The club Christmas Dinner is at Daisy Maes on December 1 at 6:00PM.
The next regular meeting of the MMRCC is scheduled for January 5,
2006 at 7:00 P.M. The meeting will be held at the Northrop Grumman
facility. Personnel are required to sign-in and sign out for security
purposes.
See
you at the meeting……………….Will
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