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    Default Re: STI Farm Fox Build Log

    Nice job Harlan.

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    Default Re: STI Farm Fox Build Log

    Looking good Harlan!
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    Default Re: STI Farm Fox Build Log

    Looking good! Spend lots of time shrinking it good now, or when it gets cold you will have lots of loose spots. Cory spend hours going over every square inch. I did not spend as much time and now have gone back going over it and probably spent more time then he did initially.
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    Default Re: STI Farm Fox Build Log

    I'm really warming up to the Oratex. Looks real nice!
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    Default Opps !

    Got the rudder done, by far the hardest part so far.
    Finished the horizontal stabilizer with no problem.
    I was putting the covering you see below on the elevator and it was probably my best work yet if I say so my self.
    I went to turn it over and do the other side and Opps, I did the top first instead of the bottom.
    Let me tell you that you can't pull oratex off of steel after the glue has been set properly. I used 700 degree heat to melt the glue bond to get it off and then acetone and lots of elbow grease to get it cleaned off the metal.
    All ready to start again....
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    Default Re: STI Farm Fox Build Log

    You sure look to have mastered the application around corners. The rudder was my first part I did and you can tell. It flies and I had no intention of having judges look at my plane so....
    Nice job Harlan
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    Default Re: STI Farm Fox Build Log

    Thanks Eddie but mastered is not the word to use at all. Had to cut a few wrinkles but the finish tape covered it well.
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    Default Re: STI Farm Fox Build Log

    I think it looks good too, Harlan! It's pretty darn hard to avoid those small wrinkles with Oratex... possible, but hard. I had often thought of cutting my own finish tape at a bias for those tight curves but never tried it.
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    Default Re: STI Farm Fox Build Log

    Just when I think I've made it those small little wrinkles won't shrink anymore.
    Now that I'm about done I have figured out to take the masking tape off after placing the glue and lay new clean tape and pull the covering all the way over the corner to your inch overlap and stretch/tack down back to the new tape.
    It won't stick to the new tape and trim lines are much better.
    I had been tacking on the flat side pulling over and tacking as I go then the last bit was full of already stretched/wrinkled material that I was putting down for the inch overlap.
    Clear as mud I'm sure.
    Oh well I hope I can help others like you guys have helped me.
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    Default Re: STI Farm Fox Build Log

    Quote Originally Posted by Kitfox Pilot View Post
    Oh well I hope I can help others like you guys have helped me.
    Harlan your vids on the Oratex covering of your plane have gone a LONG way towards my understanding of the effort and thinking it is possible to do the deed.

    Thanks for all the time you have spent doing the videos and the good tips you have provided!!

    Geek

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