Do you like the odor of Spannlack?

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Do you like the odor of Spannlack?

Post by 6266 » Sun Jan 30, 2022 1:55 pm

(To translate Spannlack was not so easy, the best suggestion from google maybe was tension varnish or dope varnish, so I use Spannlack in my text ;-) )

Preparing my parents house for selling after my mother died some years ago, we were three former pilots in the cellar. There we found a box with a little bit of Spannlack in it. We opened it to smell it. Wow, very old memories came back. When we had to leave the cellar later one said: "Let us smell once again".

If you can understand this, you may be interested in older planes too. In Condor we unfortunately don't get this special odor, but we have older planes to use. And we now have the Vintage Series, flying the planes up to the 70th. Some highlights

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PS: If you don't understand this with the Spannlack, you are welcome anyway ;-)
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Re: Do you like the odor of Spannlack?

Post by Paul_UK » Sun Jan 30, 2022 2:14 pm

I think in the UK we call this stuff Cellulose Dope. I used it a lot to tighten up tissue paper covering on model freeflight aircraft in my younger years. It does have a very very distinct smell! I'm unsure if this is the same stuff that is used on full size gliders though.
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Re: Do you like the odor of Spannlack?

Post by 6266 » Sun Jan 30, 2022 2:29 pm

Thanks Paul for this info. I think it's the same. We used the same for model airplanes as for real gliders.

We had to repair a Ka 8 after i crash in a forest. After painting it with this stuff you was a happy man :-D
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Re: Do you like the odor of Spannlack?

Post by Ikaros » Sun Jan 30, 2022 2:52 pm

I love the odor of Spannlack "more than anything" and I am looking forward to cover and varnish these wings. :D
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Re: Do you like the odor of Spannlack?

Post by 6266 » Sun Jan 30, 2022 3:17 pm

Ikaros wrote:
Sun Jan 30, 2022 2:52 pm
I love the odor of Spannlack "more than anything"
Me too. Nice plane
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Re: Do you like the odor of Spannlack?

Post by wickid » Sun Jan 30, 2022 7:14 pm

I've got a few liters...
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*snifsnif* :P
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Re: Do you like the odor of Spannlack?

Post by 6266 » Sun Jan 30, 2022 9:06 pm

Oh, can you upload the smell please?
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