I'm willing to do some weighing and testing when I'm ready to start re-coating! Next Monday I'll be gone for 5 weeks training as a pilot wheeeeeyyy. Don't have a clue where I'll be hanging out after that. I'll let you guys know about my plan of approach beforehand so we could discuss it a little more. Maybe I'll make some videos of flight behaviour before and after as well. Plan so far:
- Video kite deformation measuring wind speed/steadyness
- Rinse kite fully in fresh water. Don't want to use any soap
- Let the kite fully dry maybe a day or two
- Weigh the kite including/excluding lines and bar
- Check porosity on certain locations. Any ideas? I was thinking 3 point tip to middle and maybe leading edge to trailing edge in the middle.
- Hang the kite on its trailing edge and inflate with some RC plane equipment
- Dissolve 2 large tubes of marine goop in a little less than 2 liters toluene. (need a little to clean the spray gun afterwards) Ratio would be about 1:8 to 1:9
- As the spray gun has a 800ml reservoir I would like to try spraying 800ml per side (will practise with water first after the cleaning)
- Use the remaining approx. 300ml for an extra layer on the tips. Any other suggestions?
- Let the kite dry for some good hrs lightly inflated
- Weigh the kite including/excluding lines and bar
- Check porosity on same locations.
- Video kite deformation measuring wind speed/steadyness
- Keeping track of some flight time, abuse and kite performance
I'm not in the possession of a porosity meter. As its not about the exact values but mostly about the difference before/after coating I could try to construct something myself but borrowing one would be nice
I currently live in Amsterdam The Netherlands.
I know the kite should deform/dent while depowered. Unfortunately powering doesn't really help. It always looks like this or maybe worse (this is not my kite nor picture):