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To: BwanaNdege

If cured in a furnace, upon cooling the mandrel would shrink sufficient to aide removal?


7 posted on 04/09/2018 10:25:15 AM PDT by Ozark Tom
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To: Ozark Tom
If cured in a furnace, upon cooling the mandrel would shrink sufficient to aide removal?

Good idea! Possibly.

Burt Rutan used a tapered aluminum street-light pole as the mandrel when winding the main wing spars for his 'Voyager' (Round-the-World-Non-Stop-Non-Refueled) airplane.

If you want to"wind your own", check out this:

http://www.xwinder.com/

10 posted on 04/09/2018 4:35:54 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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