This video of our wing press shows the full process of skinning and pressing some 50" wing panels. I really prefer the wing press over bagging when utilizing balsa skins which is primarily what we do here at Old S'CooL Hobbies. On this particular set of panels we used West Systems epoxy resing as the adhesive. This material requires a minimum of 24 hours cure time. We have done much testing and pressings now utilizing GG (gorilla glue) with great success. This allows much less cure time of around 4 hours only. And the way GG penetrates the wood grain, it greatly increases skin density, durability and produces a skin-bond that is virtually impervious to delamination.
Crank up the tunes and Enjoy the show.
Eric
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