Another thing about wax paper is that different brands are, well...different. I've used wax paper to cover the plans of several built-up models I've built, and some wax papers just seems to be less stick resistant then others. It's not a big problem in this case, but if it were covering every square inch of the paper, and under pressure for hours (as in a wing being bagged), it could end up being a disaster. Remember, they make the stuff so food won't stick to it...not industrial grade epoxies. Make sure you get the good stuff. A couple times, I've tried mixing epoxy on wax paper (yeah, probably not a good idea). Often the epoxy would end up sorta milky colored, and would not cure properly. Possibly that's a different situation, but this would still make me want to avoid using it in direct contact with curing epoxy in a structural part of the airplane. Your milage may vary. At 08:59 AM 9/30/00 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Man, who'd a thought that wax paper could be so interesting...I guess that >says something about us. > >I do use it for building, it's great for many things. I keep it out of epoxy >lay-ups for 2 reasons. #1- I have had it become part of the part. I use thin >resins, heat, and vacuum. The resin will get into the wax paper and it is >hell to remove. I only needed to do this 1 time. #2 -- wax is not something I >want to have mixed in with a structural composite. I stick to micro balloons, >cotton flocking, glass fiber, aramid fiber, carbon fiber, cat hair, and very >rarely boron fiber. If you try to look up the structural properties of waxed >paper you will probably have a hard time finding anything very encouraging. > >Pretty day -- go fly. Good luck to the Brookville crew this weekend - Rob >Glover > >> I build on wax paper with epoxy and CA a lot. I haven't have any problems >> yet. >RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ____________________________________________________________________________ Brett Jaffee: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brett's Slope and Power Home Page: http://home.earthlink.net/~jaffee OnTheWay Quake 2 server utility: http://www.planetquake.com/ontheway The Unoffical Extra 300 Home Page: http://www.bayarea.net/~nathan/extra300/ ____________________________________________________________________________ RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
