Roger wrote:

On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 05:59:37 GMT, Richard Lamb
wrote:

If a fiberglass patch on an aluminum backplate stays on for one entire
trip around the pattern, I'd be flat out amazed...

Properly preped it'll stay on as well as the paint, better in some
cases. Without a good degrease and prep I doubt it'd stay on past the
run up. :-)) Many of our "plastic" planes have Aluminum to
glass/resin bonds.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com


I know, Roger, but....

Someone who is actually building a plastic plane should step up to the
microphone and tell how those metal plates are installed.

I know of no structural design that has aluminum plates "glued" on to
glass.

My best guess is that they get "bonded in" by covering them with more
layers of glass. - in effect, the metal is burried inside the glass.

That's not he case here.


Richard (the skeptical cave) Lamb