Pietenpol-List: Forward Fuselage support
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2001 6:55 pm
Original Posted By: Chris Tracy
Folks, I have got most of my joints very tight and have had no problemwith using the aerolite glue. I researched it pretty heavy, along withmany others and decided to use it as it had the best overallproperties. I know lots of people are using the T-88, but I declinedto do so after doing some oven tests. I definitely did not like thesoftening of the glue at the temperatures that can be expected in anenclosed wing. Recorcinol was the second choice. I also did some gaptests using the aerolite, and even with almost 1/16 inch gap, the woodstill broke rather than the glue joint. No, I am not recommending 1/16inch slop in joints. It was just that I heard that it had no gapfilling properties previously, and thought it would be worth a fewsticks, and some time. The method that I used was to ALWAYS put theglue on the stationary piece and the hardener on the piece in hand. Itworked for me, although it was hard to get aerolite into Canada. Iended up picking it up on the U.S. side of the border. It appears thatthe shippers were worried about the acid or an auto-polymerizationreaction.Would I use it again? definitely!Of all the things to sort out on building the Piet, the selection ofwhich glue to use was probably one of the toughest to resolve. I alsochecked with Transport Canada, at the time, and it was OK by them. Istill did the testing, as it wasn't going to be their butts hanginghigh.Good luck and good building.-=Ian=-Piet ready for precover inspection in the spring!________________________________________________________________________________Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 23:54:11 -0700Subject: Pietenpol-List: Forward Fuselage support
Folks, I have got most of my joints very tight and have had no problemwith using the aerolite glue. I researched it pretty heavy, along withmany others and decided to use it as it had the best overallproperties. I know lots of people are using the T-88, but I declinedto do so after doing some oven tests. I definitely did not like thesoftening of the glue at the temperatures that can be expected in anenclosed wing. Recorcinol was the second choice. I also did some gaptests using the aerolite, and even with almost 1/16 inch gap, the woodstill broke rather than the glue joint. No, I am not recommending 1/16inch slop in joints. It was just that I heard that it had no gapfilling properties previously, and thought it would be worth a fewsticks, and some time. The method that I used was to ALWAYS put theglue on the stationary piece and the hardener on the piece in hand. Itworked for me, although it was hard to get aerolite into Canada. Iended up picking it up on the U.S. side of the border. It appears thatthe shippers were worried about the acid or an auto-polymerizationreaction.Would I use it again? definitely!Of all the things to sort out on building the Piet, the selection ofwhich glue to use was probably one of the toughest to resolve. I alsochecked with Transport Canada, at the time, and it was OK by them. Istill did the testing, as it wasn't going to be their butts hanginghigh.Good luck and good building.-=Ian=-Piet ready for precover inspection in the spring!________________________________________________________________________________Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 23:54:11 -0700Subject: Pietenpol-List: Forward Fuselage support