Uh, Please, Sirs

Generic polyester fabric, contact cement and dope.

Excellent. Where may this dope be bought? If you buy it from the
aircraft suppliers you pay an arm and a leg, plus awful hazmat charges.

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The local Home Depot (San Marcos, CA) carries nitrocellulose dope.

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But you left out: Which is lightest in weight?, Which is easiest to
apply? and Which is most beloved amongst those who have never done any
fabric work at all?, always a hot topic on this Newsgroup :-)


Mr. Hoover, kind sir, could you (or someone else as knowledgeable) answer
those questions you posed?

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That was offered tongue-in-cheek. If you're experienced in fabric
work you can do a pretty good job with whatever materials come to
hand. But if you don't know how, you're probably better off going to
one of those 'Workshops.' They'll be happy to sell you a dimes-worth
of information for a dollar, along with their over-priced dope, fabric
& glue. Make you an Instant Expert in all aspects of fabric work :-)

Of course, if you were experienced in fabric work you wouldn't be
asking. The Catch-22 is that you need to know how to do fabric work
before you can appreciate most of the answers you're going to get.

Most homebuilders only cover one airplane in their life, generally
buy-in to one of the package deals, use the tail feathers and control
surfaces to learn on. Usually works out okay but the cost can run two
or three times more than it should. I suggest you try to find an
experienced hand to show you how to rib-stitch, do the taping and so
on. Basic covering is fairly straight-forward but the durability and
appearance of the finished job hinges on a host of details.

-R.S.Hoover