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- From: larry@peak.psl.nmsu.edu (Evil Engineer doin' it the Cowboy Way)
- Subject: Re: Light Covering...
- In-Reply-To: torsten@rnivh.rni.sub.org's message of 24 Dec 92 07:05:49 GMT
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- Organization: New Mexico State University, MetaPhysical Science Laboratory
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 02:04:44 GMT
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- >>>>> On 24 Dec 92 07:05:49 GMT, torsten@rnivh.rni.sub.org (Torsten Leibold) said:
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- >Would tissue and dope be advised? Any other advice?
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- Torsten> No !! Don't use tissue like silk or nylon if you'd like
- Torsten> to get a light covering. It needs vast amounts of paint
- Torsten> to get enough tension and that will make the covering
- Torsten> much heavier than any film covering.
-
- I disagree. Dope and tissue still represents the best low-tech finish if
- you are interested in strength and lightness. (All those FF guys would
- certainly be using something else if it were markedly lighter and
- stronger.)
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- Interestingly, dope and tissue can be among the finest and most beautiful
- light finishes too. If you don't believe it, take a look at one of Windy
- Urtknowski's CL stunters sometime. By comparison, even the finest monokote
- finish looks downright tacky.
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- Of course, Windy probably puts in 100+ hours finishing each of his ships.
- There are well over a dozen paint coat/steps involved.. You have to *love*
- your ship enough!
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- L.
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