X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Sender: To: lml@lancaironline.net Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 12:56:00 -0500 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from relay-2.mail.nethere.net ([66.63.128.162] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.4) with ESMTP id 888260 for lml@lancaironline.net; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 11:45:35 -0500 Received-SPF: none receiver=logan.com; client-ip=66.63.128.162; envelope-from=bnn@nethere.com Received: from scan-1.mail.nethere.net (scan-1.mail [66.63.128.132]) by relay-2.mail.nethere.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A25153C239; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 08:44:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta-2.mail.nethere.net by scan-1.mail.nethere.net with LMTP id 34071-01-18; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 08:44:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from Dell-P4-2GHz.nethere.com (o1-dialup-69-85-153-10.rev.o1.com [69.85.153.10]) by mta-2.mail.nethere.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 357F311AC1A; Mon, 19 Dec 2005 08:44:43 -0800 (PST) X-Original-Message-Id: <6.2.1.2.0.20051219083808.01cb3240@pop3.nethere.net> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.2.1.2 X-Original-Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 08:43:20 -0800 X-Original-To: "Lancair Mailing List" , daniel newland From: Guy Buchanan Subject: Re: [LML] Re: Body Work In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed At 03:00 AM 12/19/2005, you wrote: > Now you know everything I know about sanders, fairing and smoothing. > > Dan Newland > Dan, Great reply, though it's going to cost me some money. ;-) My problem has always been getting a faired surface with varying surface hardness caused by local filling. I remember the America's Cup guys got around this in the old days by making sure the entire hull was covered by Microlite. As a structures guy I was always livid over the weight but it sure produced a fair hull. (Now, of course, we use female tools and little or no fairing.) Do you recommend the same for an aircraft, covering it completely, then sanding it all off? Guy Buchanan K-IV 1200 / 582 / 99.9% done, thanks mostly to Bob Ducar.