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1. 07:23 AM - Glues (TBYH@aol.com)
2. 08:51 PM - Belize Piet (lshutks@webtv.net (Leon Stefan))
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I've read with interest the glue posts -- I'm using the West System epoxy.
I've built several test joints and simply cannot break this stuff. I took a
hammer to one test joint and only succeeded in breaking out the ply gusset
material around the joint, but the joint still held.
I also gave a test joint to one of my boys who was into weight lifting at
that time. Just one day after making that joint, this kid who can squat 450 lbs
and dead lift 500-plus, could not break that joint. I imagine a human cannot
exert enough pressure to break that stuff anyway no matter how strong, but it
sure was dramatic watching him try to pull that test joint apart... The other
advantage with the West System, in addition to being easy to mix using the
pumps, is that our local marine supply store (10 minutes from my house) carries
West System epoxy. I mix it using plastic coffee container lids -- after the left
over epoxy hardens it simply cracks out of the lid and you can reuse the lid.
When a lid gets too scruffy after a while, just throw it away and grab a
fresh one.
Took the Piet fuselage structure out of the basement the other day, mainly to
take better pictures as it is hard to get good pics in the cramped workshop.
Also proved that I CAN get the fuselage out of the basement -- quite easy
actually, even with stairs and two doors to go through plus navigate around some
joist supports...I'll post some pics if someone can tell me how to do that...
That's about if for this Saturday morning on the Upper Miss. Looks like
another nice fall day but some rain moving in later...hate to say it, but there's
a
mention of snow showers in the forecast for tonight and tomorrow
morning...won't be long and we'll all be yearning for those hot, dry summer days
at
Brodhead...
Also, I got a note from Ken Perkins a few days ago -- he is home and on the
mend following heart surgery. Good news!
Regards to all,
Fred B.
La Crosse, WI
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--> Pietenpol-List message posted by: lshutks@webtv.net (Leon Stefan)
The guy was a real trail blazer. I was anxious to see how his rope (in
leau of) control cables worked out. I check the NTSB sight regularly,
but othing there yet. Leon S. Do not archive
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