Warbird Information Exchange

Making mental note not to use Ober's pinking shears in his tool box.......ooppsss don't have to on current airplane though...

And I did try to find the answer to the rotary pinking cutting tool....much info but not the invention status.

JDK,,,I was surprised by that date also.....being a tomboy I never used them for sewing and only knew of their use on aircraft fabric. I suspect it took a while for aircraft people to see the benefits of using that which quilters/seamstresses already knew. Does that sound logical????

Given Ober's post, I'm surprised they've 'cottoned' on even now. But yes, it makes sense. I'm intrigued though. Will do some more digging. Or hunting needles.

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I may be way off on this one since A&P school was 20 years ago and I haven't done much dope and fabric work since, but didn't pinking tapes give more surface area for the tape to adhere to the fabric and a place for the tape to rip rather than pull all the fabric off? I want to say that there was a certain speed at witch if the aircraft could exceed that speed it had to have pinked tapes and fabric?

Steve

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