Nylon hinges
10-11-2003, 07:30 PM
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Nylon hinges
How sensitive are nylon hinges to the heat of a sealing iron? I would like to install them prior to covering so I can pin them in place with cut off toothpicks. Is this OK?
10-11-2003, 10:11 PM
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RE: Nylon hinges
Steve:
The heat won't hurt the nylon hinges. If I may suggest, there's a product called Goop that you can buy at Home Depot. Strong enough that you don't need to pin the hinges. Put some vasaline on the hinge pins to keep the glue from getting into them. Never had one pull out on many planes.
The heat won't hurt the nylon hinges. If I may suggest, there's a product called Goop that you can buy at Home Depot. Strong enough that you don't need to pin the hinges. Put some vasaline on the hinge pins to keep the glue from getting into them. Never had one pull out on many planes.
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RE: Nylon hinges
I have used Nylon hinges in most of my scratch built planes and i have no troubles with them (i mean they have never melted, i hope!) All i do is make the iron setting hot enough to "tack" the covering to the plane (not to hot, not to cold)
Also i havnt used Nylon Hinges much now since i started building spads (i used nylon hinges about a year or 2 ago with no problems, but please dont take my advice just because ive done it its up to remember!
Also i havnt used Nylon Hinges much now since i started building spads (i used nylon hinges about a year or 2 ago with no problems, but please dont take my advice just because ive done it its up to remember!
