Thin balsa is very fragile, I doubt that you would get sufficient stiffness to squeegy out the resin. You would be better off using 1mm plywood.
Then you could call it a Taylor Monoplane ;-) Seriously I think trying to skin the wings in thin ply will be very difficult, especially ailerons, and end caps etc. go look at the plans for a monoplane wing. Pete Mark Langford wrote: > Eduardo Navarrete wrote: > > >> thanks for your answers. i want to put the wood sheets >> between the ribs. do you know the thickness of the >> polyurethane foam that are between the ribs ?? >> > > What I had in mind was stretching very thin sheets (like 1mm or less) over > the ribs so that no sanding is required. Then cover that with whatever > number of layers of fiberglass that the plans call for. I'll bet that would > result in a skin that would never delaminate, unlike fiberglass on urethane > foam. I think KR foam is normally 1" and 2" thick, depending on where it is > in the wing. I'd think if you used balsa that thick and tried to sand it to > shape, it would be fairly heavy. > > Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama > see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford > email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html >
