Ok, gents, time for the new guy to learn something .......... again.
I bought a used Thunder Tiger Windstar EP to give soaring a shot. The plane has a tear in one wing. The tear is between the ribs and stringers of one section of the wing with no balsa underneath it. I have no idea how to properly go about the repair/patch. The tear is a "V" shape with the legs of the "V" about 3 inches long and the point is hanging in the wing. Do I try to match the color with a heat shrinkable film and apply it over the tear tacking it to the rectangle of ribs and stringers right over the remaining film? Do I first cut the damaged film out to the ribs and stringers?
Is there any time that you just apply a self-adhesive patch to the damage .... perhaps when its a simple puncture?
I still haven't worked with shrinkable covering yet (other than applying heat to tighten up the film on my glow planes), so I may not be aware of patch material that might be available. Feel free to straighten me out and/or point me to a website that can educate me.
Harlan