Rick mentioning that he was intending to use heat stretched sprue to rig his 3 lovely Spads got me thinking. Which pulls harder, HSP or 2 lb monofilament?
I am about to rig the tailplane on my paper card model Short 184 and suddenly that becomes a pertinent question. I have a digital soldering iron that is quite adjustable as far as temp goes. I have mostly used it on mono and by trial and a few errors I found a setting that rather slowly tightens a run of rigging. The couple of times I used it on HSP, it worked similarly. However the art of heat shrinking a run of rigging is not a science and occasionally the run snaps taught quickly. I am worried that that might be more than a paper tailplane can withstand without bending. Anyone know or have a good guess which rigging material tends to pull harder?
I can always cut the run and make another or at worst, print and make a new tailplane, but I thought it best to ask in case someone had some definite opinions.
TIA
sp