From: N295VV@aol.com
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Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 02:26:24 EDT
Subject: Re: Flap Peel/Peel Ply
To: lancair.list@olsusa.com
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From: n295v v 

One of the reasons a skin would peel like that would be if the peel ply was 
not removed, and the skin was epoxied with the peel ply intact.  If this is 
the case, re-epoxying the skin will result in the same occurrence.  

If you did not build the plane, and if you find the peel ply still on the 
skin, this is not a good thing, because the inattentive builder might have 
left PP on other important surfaces as well......

There was an anecdote in the early nineties about a Lancair that had to be 
chain-sawed because when it was inspected by the factory, it was found to 
have been put together with the peel ply intact.  Such things nightmares are 
made of.

As expensive as these kits are, I have always felt that the factory, which at 
one time was making some parts overseas,  should have hired some inexpensive 
labor to peel every part it sold, just to ensure that not a single part ever 
got glued with PP intact.

I would have gladly have paid another couple hundred to have the parts come 
in with no PP.

Additionally, imagine the cost in bad publicity if Lancairs started to fall 
out of the sky because of PP not being removed.  It seemed to me to be a risk 
that the factory shouldn't be taking.  But then, what the heck do I know?

Well, I do know that  control skins have peeled before because the Peel Ply 
was intact.   Well,  duh..... 

David Jones, Pecatonica, Illinois
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