Taped

This weekend I managed to finish taping the flaps and ailerons, moving one step closer to flying again.  Any pressure point on the fabric (such as where the fabric goes from having structure under it to where it doesn’t or the rib stitching) is covered in a reinforcing tape.  The reinforcing tape is just lightweight fabric that is cut into 2-4″ strips, with pinked (little triangles) cut to promote adhesion.  Next step is to add one last brush coat of PolyBrush (the pink stuff) on the fabric to add more “glue” between the tapes and base fabric and then iron all the tape edges to make sure the edges are bathed in the vinyl left by the PolyBrush and likely to stick.  Then the spray coats begin!

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