oldcrow
Well-Known Member
Please chime in on this all of you Fabric covering gurus. ( or should I say "dope" heads)
I am thinking about building a "Texas Parasol" and I was looking at the way the wing ribs are made. It seems as if rib stitching would be near to impossible with this type of construction. ( I would fear that the compression rib would cut the rib stitch over time) Any way even though it is not a high speed aircraft I would like the added security of knowing that I would not get any separation from my ribs and fabric. So this is my thought. Instead of stitching through the fabric with wax chord, why not wrap the wing at each rib location with heavy duty upholstery thread. Tie it nice and snug, apply more fabric bonding cement and then the pinking tape. Am I making any sense? The Texas Parasol wing uses two aluminum tubes for the spars with the ribs in between them. You would wrap the chord around the spars AND each rib over top of your fabric then sealing with pinking tape.
Once again please chime in on this if you are real familiar with aircraft covering techniques.
thanks
I am thinking about building a "Texas Parasol" and I was looking at the way the wing ribs are made. It seems as if rib stitching would be near to impossible with this type of construction. ( I would fear that the compression rib would cut the rib stitch over time) Any way even though it is not a high speed aircraft I would like the added security of knowing that I would not get any separation from my ribs and fabric. So this is my thought. Instead of stitching through the fabric with wax chord, why not wrap the wing at each rib location with heavy duty upholstery thread. Tie it nice and snug, apply more fabric bonding cement and then the pinking tape. Am I making any sense? The Texas Parasol wing uses two aluminum tubes for the spars with the ribs in between them. You would wrap the chord around the spars AND each rib over top of your fabric then sealing with pinking tape.
Once again please chime in on this if you are real familiar with aircraft covering techniques.
thanks