REFLECTOR: Top door strake dents

Alex Balic reflector@tvbf.org
Thu, 30 Oct 2003 23:54:56 -0600


I would say that even packing the area behind the skin with dry micro would
solve this problem, the micro probably weighs just a little bit more than
the foam, but it is very firm, I can't see it allowing any dents. Honeycomb
will dent at least as easily as the foam core does. for really rigid lay-ups
we would fill nomex honey comb with micro, this way it would not dent, but
for the velocity, you could just replace the foam with micro, and it would
be as resilient.

-----Original Message-----
From: reflector-admin@tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-admin@tvbf.org]On
Behalf Of Jim Sower
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 10:17 PM
To: reflector@tvbf.org
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Top door strake dents


Would honeycomb in the critical area, as well as extra plies or
carbon fiber make it a lot less subject to dents?  Denser foam?
Anything besides lots of flox?
Still looking for a good solution .... Jim S.

DOHAYES@aol.com wrote:

>  I remember talking about this years ago, before completing my
> strakes. The focus then was how to make the top skin stronger,
> rather than how to keep the foam underneath from compressing,
> which now seems to have been revealed as the actual problem.
> If we had recognized this back then, it would have been a
> relatively simple matter to remove the inner skin and foam
> next to the door, and treat the area exactly as is done where
> the strakes attach to the spar. Routing out the foam in the
> problem area, as has been suggested, seems like the only
> solution at this point that will pretty much eliminate the
> possibility of dents. I suppose if I did that now, I could
> remove the dents I already have as well, except that my
> painter put them on both sides.. I'm also considering some
> kind of paint design that isn't so glossy in the problem area,
> so as to make the dents less obvious. I'm not sure I want to
> use the wing walk material though, even though I was seriously
> considering that at first, because it seems like I do a lot of
> intentional sliding, especially when getting out. What to do,
> what to do? Doug HayesBoulder, CO

--
Jim Sower
Crossville, TN; Chapter 5
Long-EZ N83RT, Velocity N4095T


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