The BT-5 motor tube also gets a skin wrap.
The self adhesive back was sanded off so it had to be glued in place.
A line is drawn down the tube for aligning the wrap edge.
When using a thin coat of white glue you are working against the clock so I thought it would be better to do this in two steps - the edge, then the rest of the wrapping.
This two stage application will work on this smaller BT-5 tube, on a larger tube it might not work as well.
Glue was applied to just the inside left edge of the wrap. This was set on the alignment line, burnished and allowed to dry.
Note the printed fin positions on the wrap.
White glue was applied to the inside of the wrap and smoothed out with the back side of a razor blade.
An old credit card could work well, too.
After rolling around the BT-5 a 1/2 dowel was slipped in the tube for support.
The seam was rolled down with a clean smaller dowel.
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