Re: Effective application of flat aluminum tape to double curved surfaces?

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Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <Mddeming-at-aol-dot-com>

In a message dated 4/22/01 9:50:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com 
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> Original poster: "David Knaack by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <
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> dknaack-at-rdtech-dot-com> 
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> Ok, I picked up toroidal foam form from the craft store, and 
> a 50 yard roll of Al tape.  The form is 12" O.D. and 8.5" I.D. 
> It is made of some remarkably tough stuff, most normal humans 
> would be hard-pressed to crush or dent it with one hand. 
>
> I've wrapped it with one layer of tape, winding it in a spiral 
> with about 1/4" overlap on each layer.  After rubbing it with 
> the back of a spoon and wiping off all the black stuff 
> (aluminum oxide I presume), it looks about like I expected, 
> covered in lots of really flat wrinkles :) 
>
> Is there a way to get this stuff really smooth, or am I just 
> out of luck with this fairly tight radius? 
>
> DK 
>


Hi DK! 
Thinner tape, larger id toroid, or tape cut in lune sections. i.e., shaped 
like  peel sections ( ). 
Matt D.