[balloon-makers] Load Tape Positioning

[Don Piccard]

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<span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>On the 1.2 million cubic foot balloon we
built in 1972, we buried the tapes inside the felled seam.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  As it was probably the largest hot air
balloon flown to that date we were very cautious and wanted the strongest
design possible.  That also
increased the transverse strength of the pull test across a seam tremendously.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  It transferred the load to the skin
efficiently, eliminated the tapes snagging on anything and protected them from
U.V.  It also made the folding
operation without a folding appliance easy and consistent.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  We used three quarter inch nylon tubular
webbing and a double needle (Singer 112) sewing machine with <span
class=SpellE>Dabond V-69 polyester thread and a Galkin
puller.   You can see a very
poor picture of that balloon on my website if you search enough.<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  (It used a Corvair
engine driving a five foot wooden airplane propeller for inflation!)

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[mailto:private e-mail address] On
Behalf Of Kelley Morgan
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006
7:30 AM
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Subject: Re: [balloon-makers] Load
Tape Positioning



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<span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Speaking of load tapes, is it better to put them on the outside or
inside of the envelope?





<span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I think inside looks better, but outside the tapes actually hang from
the fabric.





<span style='font-size:
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<span style='font-size:
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Kasey Schwemmer <<st1:PersonName
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<span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>So more questions arrise as I continue to contimplate every
possible way of constructing my balloon and the likely outcome of each method.





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<span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The method for applying the load tapes I'm liking the most
is having them run down the middle of each gore. Now, I've read about the
different ways of putting on load tape, and one way is simply running the tape
down the middle, but without a half-gore design. I know there would be no
questions about it with a split-gore design. But for balloons that are built
with "solid" gores, is it not a too good an idea to put the tape
where a seam doesn't exist? I read (in BBJ I think) that this way
possibly could eventually wear holes in the fabric where the
needle pokes through. 





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<span style='font-size:12.0pt;
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<span style='font-size:12.0pt;
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<span style='font-size:12.0pt;
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