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Re: Irish Linen
Posted by bdk on Fri Feb 20, 2004 05:44:13 PM
In reply top Irish Linen Mill Closure posted by AndyG on Fri Feb 20, 2004 03:22:06 PM
I doubt that Irish Linen is used much in the US except for a very few antiques. Modern heat shrinkable covering systems are so much easier to use, much lighter, and so much more durable. They also don't continue to shrink over time, crushing internal structure.
Was the Irish Linen produced at this factory aircraft specification material, or just bedsheet quality?
: I heard on the news tonight that the last Irish Linen mill
: at Sion Mills in Ulster (NI) is to close after being unde
: r sustained ecconomic pressures from the East for man year
: s.
:
: My question is this: Do many restorers UK/US or otherwise
: still specify and use Irish Linen where required for cover
: ings? Or have modern equivalents (ceconite? etc) largely s
: uperceded it for airworthy maintenance cases & restoratio
: ns?
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