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Online Dick Pacini

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SKY LOFT Covering By Dave Brown Products
« on: May 04, 2012, 10:26:27 PM »
Has anyone used SKY LOFT covering?  Pros, cons?
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Re: SKY LOFT Covering By Dave Brown Products
« Reply #1 on: May 05, 2012, 07:09:03 AM »
Dick,

I've used some of it but never on open bays.

It's just a tighter weave tissue paper? A tad thicker.

I used it just like glass cloth. I still have some left from ages ago. Not sure you can read the directions, but it's the best photo I could take.

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Re: SKY LOFT Covering By Dave Brown Products
« Reply #2 on: May 05, 2012, 06:24:05 PM »
It's a synthetic cloth. Sort of like a heavier version of polyspan. I tried it. Once.
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Re: SKY LOFT Covering By Dave Brown Products
« Reply #3 on: May 05, 2012, 07:16:40 PM »
Quote from: Randy Powell on May 05, 2012, 06:24:05 PM
It's a synthetic cloth. Sort of like a heavier version of polyspan. I tried it. Once.

Randy,

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That's not an empty bag. Dave Brown's Sky Loft material is still in it.  n~

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Re: SKY LOFT Covering By Dave Brown Products
« Reply #4 on: August 10, 2012, 11:38:38 AM »
Quote from: Randy Powell on May 05, 2012, 06:24:05 PM
It's a synthetic cloth. Sort of like a heavier version of polyspan. I tried it. Once.

I have to agree with Randy on this one.  I tried it once.  Weave is very loose that took way too many coats to fill.  There were holes in it the size of ball point pen.  Almost impossible to fill.  It is very strong.  Polyspan or silk in my opinion is much better.

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Re: SKY LOFT Covering By Dave Brown Products
« Reply #5 on: August 10, 2012, 05:10:31 PM »
SKY LOFT is a nylon mat. FAI Free Flight flapper expert Bill Giesking of Colorado used it for strengthening light structures, applied with "Deft" varnish sorta stuff, and probably then covered with monokote. It might work well with PolyAcrylic for a surface structural layer, but I can't imagine that it would sand out smooth...probably fuzzys would result. I wouldn't use it for open bays for any reason.  D>K Steve
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Re: SKY LOFT Covering By Dave Brown Products
« Reply #6 on: August 15, 2012, 05:00:12 PM »
I used Dave Brown SKYLOFT on a TRIXTER BARNSTORMER I built in 1987.  I did find that it took a fair amount of dope to fill the tissue and that if you sanded it, you did get a case of the fuzzies.  Overall, the SKYLOFT has held up well and the BARNSTORMER is still flying today.  I also found out that if you lean over the plane and drop a ballpoint pen out of your pocket, you will get a hole in the wing that will need patching (of course, this is true with most coverings, except for parachute nylon which I have used on my SUPER CLOWN and one of my OUTLAW STERLING S-1 RINGMASTERS).  I would use SKYLOFT again, but I do prefer silk over SKYLOFT........TD.......  D>K     H^^  
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