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- From: andrew@tug.com (Andrew Beattie)
- Subject: Re: FlowForm
- Organization: Negligible.
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 13:30:41 GMT
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- In article <18146@umd5.umd.edu> jeffy@syrinx.umd.edu (Jeffrey C. Burka) writes:
- >This was also my first experience with binding edges, and that went reasonably
- >well. The binding I used was a bit stretchy, and got tautened a bit
- >while I sewed it on, so the fabric is very lightly bunched up in places,
- >but it doesn't seem to have effected the kite.
-
- I had a similar problem when sewing the fabric onto the vent of my 15m foil.
- I measured the vent to size, because the vent fabric is very stiff and easy
- to measure, then just sewed the skin fabric onto it. On one seam, I was sewing
- with the ripstop on top and the vent underneath. On the other seam, I was
- sewing with the vent on top and the ripstop underneath. The difference in
- fabric tension resulted in the "vent-on-top" seam consuming 60cm more
- ripstop along the 15m seam. Just to make things worse, I did a re-inforcing
- zig-zag, before deciding that it was no good and un-picking it all. :-(
-
- A full report on designing, constructing and flying this kite when it
- is finished...
-
- Andrew
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