Thanks for the replies Frank and Keith.Frank, what you describe is similar to what I am doing now. It's not too bad butI am finding it hard to straighten the fibers. It seems that when I make onesection straight, I mess another. And when I go fix the other, I mess the firstone :) But at the end it works out OK. One thing I don't think helps is thatI apply masking tape to the biased cut line. Its nice for cutting but I thinkthat when I place that line on the TE, any pull on the fibers at that end willdistort adjacent fibers since they are joined at that edge.Keith, your proposal is intriguing since I was thinking about something similar.I will think about that. Our parts are not that big and a small frame wouldprobably work well. I had it with the "roll the fabric in a tube" technique whichis not working that great for me.BTW, I asked the Cozy group about it (I was building a Cozy before I got the Europakit). In the cozy, UNI layups tend to be the big stuff (wings) so you usethe whole width, unroll it over the wind and have two people pull at the endsof the whole width of cloth. You lift the whole thing, straighten and then bringdown. That is hard to do with pieces cut to match the shape of the flap withbiased cloth. Other suggestions from the Cozy group where the 'Spatula" idea(placing the cloth on a big flat piece of cardboard and then sliding the clothin place, the portable roll to move in place for unrolling the glass over thepart at the right angle, etc. But they all involve full width of cloth anddropping it over the part which I find a little wasteful for our small parts.Best Regards,Chris MartinRead this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=471382#471382
