bob turner
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Hey HT - I am doing gear legs this week. Your suggestion was to use cotton for the tapes. As you know, Grade A is a thing of the past, so I tried a similar variety of 100% cotton - muslin.
I did the trailing edge first - one turned out sort of ok - a couple of very small air bubbles remain, and the pinked edge of the fabric seam shows through. The iron will not fix those. The other sort of got a ridge for about 6” over the pinked edge, and the iron made it worse.
I pulled that one - pretty good adhesion - and finished up with Dacron - but am willing to try this again. What should I have done - just glued a half inch around the outside of the tape, then shrunk with water before applying the rest of the coating?
I am leaving that one cotton tape - it is on the left leg, and we seem to have more problems with the right leg inner rear seam, so not sure it will be a good test.
I did the trailing edge first - one turned out sort of ok - a couple of very small air bubbles remain, and the pinked edge of the fabric seam shows through. The iron will not fix those. The other sort of got a ridge for about 6” over the pinked edge, and the iron made it worse.
I pulled that one - pretty good adhesion - and finished up with Dacron - but am willing to try this again. What should I have done - just glued a half inch around the outside of the tape, then shrunk with water before applying the rest of the coating?
I am leaving that one cotton tape - it is on the left leg, and we seem to have more problems with the right leg inner rear seam, so not sure it will be a good test.
