It was explained to me by my father, the aircraft engineer, that the big
problem with the mosquitos was the glue. The plywood was glued together with
a glue that was like crack for some sort of microorganism, and the poor
things were carefully and fully delaminated.
Don't know if he was right, but as a structural engineer, he knew a very
very little about wood, just what he learned in his first job at Stearman.
Bill Pearce
-----Original Message-----
From: JOHN DUGGAN
Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 11:39 AM
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] Nathan's PAD 8/9/2011: colours in Brussels
Mosquito's were attacked by termites and they arguably used the technology
first...a thin layer of ply, balsa core, then another layer of ply...way
before their time ;-)>
Regards
John Duggan,
Wales, UK
--- On Mon, 12/9/11, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [OM] Nathan's PAD 8/9/2011: colours in Brussels
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Monday, 12 September, 2011, 11:12
And you've just made it worse by going even further away from the pun.
I don't know any termites that can drill through carbon composites to
get to the delicious balsa wood inside. Oh, wait! Maybe Formosan
termites can.
Chuck (no puns allowed) Norcutt
On 9/12/2011 12:29 AM, Moose wrote:
> On 9/10/2011 4:44 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>> But Morgans do have wooden frame rails and might be subject to attack by
>> wood eating organisms.
>
> So do much more recent Corvettes, 1997 to present I believe.
>
> "The C5 Corvette's floor is constructed using two layers of an aircraft
> type composite material wrapped around a balsa
> wood core. The balsa wood helps filter out noise and vibration, and makes
> the floor 10 times stiffer than the use of
> composites alone. Numerous "high tech" synthetic fillers were tried, but
> none matched the stiffness, light weight and
> damping performance of natural balsa wood. "
>
> But what's the point if they aren't "Bug"attis? My punny post was in
> response to a pic of old Bugattis.
>
> I don't give a hang about car frames, only the pun. And you literalists
> have ruined it, 'cause any pun you have to
> explain is dead. ;-)
>
> Moose
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