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dgolden(at)golden-consult
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Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 10:26 am Post subject: PolyFiber silver coats and their effect on radio signals

Mike Welch wrote:

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		     I know what the Poly Fiber manual says.  It wants you to spray the

 entire plane!!  I talked to Dondi Miller ((at) Aircraft Tech Support...a

 leading seller of the P.F. products), and she said as far as she knew,

 you have to spray the entire plane.  But, since I get to make the

 decision on my own plane....I chose not to.  Others opinions may

 differ.  I'm ok with that.


	


I almost let this go without comment. It's your plane and you can do as

you chose, but remember that Steve Wittman and his wife were killed

because of not following the Poly Fiber process. Steve probably designed

built more aircraft that anyone I know of. The process was developed for

a reason, and I will follow it.



I just was to make sure that others have this information. You are free

to do what you want with your aircraft, but I will bet that if you did

have an accident caused by not following the process, that your

insurance would be worthless.



Just my $0.02,



Dennis



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		   Mike Welch

 Kolb MkIII


	




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Dennis Golden

Golden Consulting Services, Inc.

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kuffel(at)cyberport.net
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Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 12:52 pm Post subject: PolyFiber silver coats and their effect on radio signals

<< remember that Steve Wittman and his wife were killed

because of not following the Poly Fiber process. >>



True, but the way Steve didn't follow the process was material.  According 

to the NTSB Steve treated the Poly Fiber fabric as if it were cotton.  He 

used dope instead of Poly Fiber glue and the fabric detached in front of his 

aileron with subsequent loss of control.  Simply not putting the specified 

amount of UV blocker on the bottom sides should not affect the fabric's 

adhesion or airflow performance, particularly if you punch test it at 

regular intervals.  Of course, a lawyer or insurance company might think 

otherwise.



Tom Kuffel

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