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Title: Hinge cloth
Post by: Dwayne on June 30, 2010, 05:58:34 AM

Went to the LHS yesterday and ran across this, it's sail cloth 10 bucks for 36"X18" maybe a little pricey but the way I look at it for the amount of small planes I build this should last me the rest of my life...lol  #^ n~ LL~
Thanks

Title: Re: Hinge cloth
Post by: john e. holliday on June 30, 2010, 07:25:27 AM

Does it say what the material is?   I have been using my package of SIG Coverall for hinge material. H^^

Title: Re: Hinge cloth
Post by: Bootlegger on June 30, 2010, 08:03:03 AM

  I picked up some cloth at Aircraft Spruce.Com simular to what is used to cover ultra lite's and apply it using dope.
 Works really well and it is light, last's a good long time also.

Title: Re: Hinge cloth
Post by: Dwayne on June 30, 2010, 09:50:17 AM

Quote from: john e. holliday on June 30, 2010, 07:25:27 AM

Does it say what the material is?   I have been using my package of SIG Coverall for hinge material. H^^

Hi John, it's called "fine balooner cotton"  I googled it and it seems to be readily available.
Thanks

Title: Re: Hinge cloth
Post by: Lionel Smith on June 30, 2010, 12:35:35 PM

Reading about coverall makes me think of my first cloth hinge effort.
No matter what I did I could not get the hinge gap small.
So I used coverall and when the glue was dry I heat shrunk it with a heatgun and had a good close hinge that lasted until the plane was oil soaked and old.

Coverall is my choice of cloth hinge material for life.

Title: Re: Hinge cloth
Post by: Bill Little on July 01, 2010, 02:52:49 AM

I stumbled across "nylon taffeta" while out *shopping with the Missus (you's gotta do what you's gotta do! LOL!!).  The stuff is ultra thin, ultra flexible, and ultra strong.  plus it will be around for millenniums after we are gone!  LL~ LL~ (I don't think nylon ever disintegrates)

I apply it with my nitrate dope before I cover the surfaces with silkspan or silk and it will disappear during the finishing phase.  Just a few bucks a yard at the Fabric Store.

Big Bear