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Title: I found and used the heaviest Silkspan I have ever seen today!
Post by: frank mccune on July 28, 2013, 06:52:11 PM

    Hi:

    I found some old silkspan in my attic and used it to patch some holes in an old Nobler.  To say this stuff is thick is an understatement.  It was about as thick as 4 sheets of high quality toilet tissue,  Quilted type you know.

    I could only tear in in one direction and that was with all the strength I could muster.  It was impossible to tear  in the other direction!!!!!  It acted like silkspan when applied.
    I shrunk well and absorbed dope like a, you fill in your own answer here! Lol 

    What do you think this stuff was.  It is at least 35 years old if not much older.  Perhaps it was not silkspan at all. 

      Any ideas as to what it is?

                                                                                          Tia,

                                                                                          Frank

Title: Re: I found and used the heaviest Silkspan I have ever seen today!
Post by: john e. holliday on July 29, 2013, 09:00:25 AM

In my shop somewhere I have some of the old GM silk span that is pre-colored.   Yes it takes a lot of dope.   

Title: Re: I found and used the heaviest Silkspan I have ever seen today!
Post by: Don Hutchinson AMA5402 on July 31, 2013, 07:09:52 PM

Could have been "Bamboo paper", lots of old time free flight designs from the late 30's on through the 40's called for this as the covering material.

Title: Re: I found and used the heaviest Silkspan I have ever seen today!
Post by: Don Hutchinson AMA5402 on August 03, 2013, 02:48:52 PM

Ty-
I haven't seen any bamboo paper since I covered a Tlush "Mite" with it in 1946. They had it in colors then.
Don