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On 7 Dec 2006 07:47:00 -0800, "jls" <jls1016@bellsouth.net> wrote:
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>veeduber@isp.com wrote:
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>> I still prefer resorcinol for props. And as shown above, it is still
>> locally available. However, given our weather, Weldwood 'Plastic
>> Resin' does just fine for most everything else.
>>
>> Despite the recent FAA warnings, if you'll check the provenance of the
>> failures that prompted the warning against urea-formaldehyde glue (ie,
>> Miles 'Messenger' and deHavilland 'Mosquito,' both in tropical
>> Australia) and compare that to the conditions under which Fly Baby's
>> (and others) enjoy here in the States, I think you'll see why I
>> continue to use it, at least until I hear of a documented case of
>> Weldwood 'Plastic Resin' failure. (Hint: If you want it to last,
>> do not leave your plywood-skinned bird parked out in the open, on the
>> equator, for four years.)
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>I have worked on three Fly Babies, two from the eighties and one from the
>seventies. Their glue joints were sturdy, and one of them had had some
>awful rough landings which broke the 4130 landing gear and ruined some
>of the welded steel fuselage attach fittings. Best I could tell the
>glue in all three was resorcinol. Pete Bowers is an honored immortal
>for designing such a great little wooden airplane that can flare 20
>feet off the deck and still remain intact.
>
>Somewhere in Ron Wanttaja's literature I read of a Fly Baby
>cartwheeling and the wings did not collapse. Fuselage was damaged but
>the pilot lived to tell the story.
http://www.bowersflybaby.com/safety/horsten.html
Last report I had is that the pilot and his adult son were building another Fly
Baby....
Ron Wanttaja
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Re: Glue it to it
