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Subject:Re: Vent wing seals? Anybody?
From:kenneth wilford (Van-Again)
Date:Tue, 26 Apr 2016 19:10:58 -0400

Marc, where are these located on the vent wing?  Maybe people just don't
understand what you are referring to.  I know I am scratching my head on
this one.

Ken

On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 5:05 PM, Marc Perdue <mcperdue@gmail.com> wrote:

> Okay, I've gotten zero responses to my questions about the lead vent
> wing seals which are NLA. Is anybody making something out of a
> different material to replace the lead seals? I was talking to a
> designer friend of mine and trying to think of some kind of material
> that could possibly be molded to fit that would then harden
> sufficiently but then remain pliable enough to seal but not so pliable
> as to leak. Any thoughts from any materials scientists out there? Do
> we have any materials scientists on the list?
>
> My lead seals are rapidly going to pot, so to speak, and I'd like to
> get them replaced with something that works, even if I have to
> engineer something new. Others could benefit from this, I'm thinking .
> . .
>
> Marc Perdue
>

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Thanks,
Ken Wilford
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