Building new rockets and repairing others, I seem to be doing experiments and having to re-learn old things. I did some fin papering last night and it didn't turn out well. The first mistake is I was using wood glue which makes the paper swell up and wrinkle. Second mistake was trying to do 9 fins at a time. Maybe if I put the paper on one fin and smoothed it out, then clamped the fin between 2 piece of flat wood it would have worked out better. I've papered fins in the past and I think this is what I did but I can't remember. So what type of glue is recommended for papering fins? Is there a better paper to use than normal printer paper.
Somewhat off the subject but earlier this year I had the idea to use tyvek paper to reinforce rockets. It is usually easy for me to get pieces of this from mailings that I receive. I knew it was tough and resisted tearing but I didn't know what the material actually was. I thought it was paper with some form of fiber integrated into it. I did an experiment and found that it did not glue well with wood glue so I researched what tyvek actually was. I found that it is a plastic material and not very heat resistant so that rules it out for most rocket use.
Somewhat off the subject but earlier this year I had the idea to use tyvek paper to reinforce rockets. It is usually easy for me to get pieces of this from mailings that I receive. I knew it was tough and resisted tearing but I didn't know what the material actually was. I thought it was paper with some form of fiber integrated into it. I did an experiment and found that it did not glue well with wood glue so I researched what tyvek actually was. I found that it is a plastic material and not very heat resistant so that rules it out for most rocket use.