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Tissues
GAZOU:
Hello the guys
With all your experience which recommend you as fabrics (tissues) to make the skirts of the Hovercraft?
Crossie:
Hi Gazou, some decades ago I made one of these machines and made my own skirts [ no-no-I'm NOT a cross-dresser! ] using a rather open weave fabric heavily impregnated with latex layed up between two sheets of heavy glass to produce a nice flat and flexible air-proof sheet . My first attempt was a bit too flimsy, so I just choose some heavier cloth, cotton I think, and the latex used was Copydex which being a natural latex eventually disintegrated because of the diesel engine fuel, though an electric model would not cause this. Silicone or polyurethane rubber might be better .
Trevor
TomHugill:
Rip stop nylon is what people seem to use
carlmt:
Rip-stop nylon was what I used many years ago when I built a 'full-sized' one-manned hovercraft for fun.
It was no fun cutting out all the individual skirt pockets and having to sew the beggars up!!!!!!
Quite fancy building an r/c version of a stretched SRN4....... %)
Tim_M:
As an apprentice at BHC, one of my jobs was to sit in a dinghy to rescue the stretched SRN4 research model if the engine cut. It was about 12 feet long, had one or two chainsaw engines (can't remember exactly). Full radio control, including real variable pitch propellers. Not 100% sure what scientific data they actually got from chasing the local sailing school round the Solent but it sure was fun!
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