Dave,
Ref your apparent hot metal: both composite and metal are actually at the
same temperature. The reason that the metal feels hotter is that it is a
better conductor of heat than the composite (and has a greater thermal
capacity); this results in more heat being transferred to your skin which
then feels hotter.
Dave
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> From: David Watts <dwatts@ns1.avnet.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: Oven Baking
> Date: 03 September 1998 06:57
>
> >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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