REFLECTOR: Novice question

[gattenby at tulsaconnect.com]

Be carefull cutting an extra foot here and there...
I wound up about a foot short when I went to do the last 
side of the last wing...
and ended up ordering a new piece of triax.


Noel

On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 12:58:46 -0700
  "Jack Prock" <jackprock at comcast.net> wrote:
> Well, I spent about two hours or so last night pulling 
>each strand in the UNI side. There were MAJOR squiggles
> throughout the cloth. Each strand needed 5 to 8 inches 
>pulled out of it. 
> But you could see the strand straighten as I 
>pulled...kinda cool! The cloth now looks real smooth .
> After this effort. I am very happy with the future 
>strength of this cloth. A few minor squiggles remain, 
> but I will pull a few of those out this afternoon when I 
>do my first wing lay up. It may be overkill to pull every 
>squiggle out,
> but it will me my butt up there at 12000 feet in 
>turbulence, and I would like to have the pucker factor as 
>low as possible.
> 
> I cut the cloth about a foot longer than it needed to 
>be.The first wrap of the cloth was dirty from movement, 
>so I decided to throw
> that out. I'm kinda glad I did. When pulling the 
>individual strands, it destroys a few inches of the 
>cloth. 
> 
> Jack
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: Nate Jackson 
>  To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list 
>  Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 9:43 AM
>  Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Novice question
> 
> 
>  Steve,
> 
>  As everyone "been there" will note, just handling the 
>triax creates suiggles. Perhaps I was just lucky with 
>since the triax I received was in good condition.  I 
>filled my wing and then carefully unrolled the triax onto 
>the wing creating no new squiggles.  I cut/trimmend it 
>and took maybe 10-20 minutes for me to straighten minor 
>squiggles.
> 
>  Nate
>    ----- Original Message ----- 
>    From: Steve Goldman 
>    To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list 
>    Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 8:50 AM
>    Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Novice question
> 
> 
>    Al Gietzen wrote:
>    > 
>    > Putting the uni side down probably results in a 
>little smoother upper 
>    > surface requiring less additional filler.  And, of 
>course, then no one 
>    > will ever see if there are squigglesJ.
> 
>    Ahh yes the real reason the factory does uni side 
>down. :-) So again being
>    the novice here If you pulled the squiggles out on 
>the cutting table uni
>    side up and then very carefully flipped the cloth as 
>you put it on the
>    cores it seems like it might be fine. Of course 
>having done no more than
>    look at the triax on the tube at this point I don't 
>know if the fibers are
>    nearly stable enough to do this.
> 
>    --
>    Steve
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