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How I Cover With Silk

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DanielGelinas:
Thanks Larry!

I just realized they sell the paint mostly for real aircraft. ~^

Regards,

-dan H^^

Andrew Tinsley:
If you want areally light finish. First cover with mylar, just like the competition Free Flight guys do (I use a thinned down impact adhesive on the ribs etc and after it is dry, I put on the very very thin mylar, you need an iron or heat to make it stick. Then cover with silk as described above. One coat of shrinking dope (suitably thinned) and you are there!
  You don't need lots of layers to seal the silk, the mylar doe that. Finish to your taste and you have a very strong lightweight finish that is far stronger than silk alone.

Regards,

Andrew.

Louis Keller, Jr.:
will this process  work for silkspan as well?

larry borden:
If you're talking about my method, silkspan works the same.

Randy Powell:
So, what's the weight difference between silk and silkspan? I've don't a couple of planes with silk, but not in a long time and never really paid much attention to this.

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