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Airframes => Single Seaters => XL => Topic started by: pappyadkins on July 09, 2022, 04:30:20 AM

Title: XL fuselage, should I treat the inside of the tubing
Post by: pappyadkins on July 09, 2022, 04:30:20 AM

I’m about to weld up my fuselage and was wondering if I need to treat the inside of my tubing or just paint the exterior.

Title: Re: XL fuselage, should I treat the inside of the tubing
Post by: Chuck in Indiana on July 12, 2022, 04:22:35 AM

Best practice is to treat the inside of the tubing. I didn't. (shrug)

Title: Re: XL fuselage, should I treat the inside of the tubing
Post by: Vince Carucci on July 12, 2022, 08:16:08 AM

Same here...  maybe should... dint do it. (Shrug) (Shrug)

Title: Re: XL fuselage, should I treat the inside of the tubing
Post by: Chuck in Indiana on July 12, 2022, 09:10:10 AM

Got me thinking. I *have* some tubing oil. I could do the bottom longerons and plug the hole with a pop rivet. They're the most important.

Title: Re: XL fuselage, should I treat the inside of the tubing
Post by: okdonn on July 12, 2022, 04:30:32 PM

After my experience repairing a damaged fuselage that had oil in the tubes, I'm not going there! Think mini flamethrower at the weld joint. I didn't realize that the oil was there until it erupted.

Title: Re: XL fuselage, should I treat the inside of the tubing
Post by: DA Miller on July 12, 2022, 06:13:12 PM

I don't need no stinking oil in my tubes.