Re: [RCSE] How to vacuum bag fiberglass cloth over balsa

2005-09-21 Thread Michael Lachowski
Check out http://home.paonline.com/hayman/video.htm for a good video. The cloth is placed on the mylar and wet out on the mylar, not on the balsa. It's a lot easier to wet out that way with an appropriate amount of epoxy. If you wet things out on the balsa, the wood will soak up a lot of exc

[RCSE] How to vacuum bag fiberglass cloth over balsa

2005-09-21 Thread glide
I’m planning to vacuum bag some fiberglass cloth over some balsa v tails I’m preparing for the Shrike I recently acquired.  I want to do the v tail with fiberglass because I feel it would make it a bit more durable. I have the basic vacuum bagging system from ACP with the vacuum bag, Mylar,