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Thread: Preparation of Wing Spars for Fabric

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    Default Re: Preparation of Wing Spars for Fabric

    If you ever think your wings might get stored in less than optimal conditions (ie Barn) you might wish you'd protected them. Rodent pee can apparently destroy the spars from the inside out. This was the subject of a recent thread on the "other" forum.
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    Default Re: Preparation of Wing Spars for Fabric

    My hang glide partner and I bought our machines in the mid seventies. We spent a lot of our time flying coastal sites for years. After he died a few years ago, the Dragonfly glider was found buried under blackberry and weed ON THE GROUND. It had laid there for AT LEAST 15 years in Pacific NW wx. I was amazed to see that the inside of those 6061 tubes looked like NEW. Pre-flight 'complete'!

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