Hi David
I'm sure the metal and the GRP parts were both at the same temperature.
Surely the metal parts only felt hotter because metal conducts heat through
to the skin better than glass?
-----Original Message-----
From: David Watts <dwatts@ns1.avnet.co.uk>
<europa@avnet.co.uk>
Date: 03 September 1998 07:32
Subject: Re: Oven Baking
>>What are opinions on whether the flanges and trailing edges should be hard
>>clamped? Rather than conjecture from those who have yet to bake has anyone
>>baked without clamping the edges and lived to regret it?
>
>We baked 'XDY in a friends car spray booth oven (together with Bob
Fairall's
>G-BXLK). None of the closeouts edges were clamped and we had no problems
>with any of them. One word of caution though. When I made my regular trips
>into the ovens stiffling heat, it was noticeable how much hotter all the
>metal parts were compared to the composite parts, in fact they were barely
>touchable. I just wonder if there might be problems in clamping the edges
>with great lengths of presumably metal tubing etc.
>
>Dave Watts. 'XDY
>
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