Fastening bands for MY-14

Suomeksi.

VL Myrsky has a lot of fastening bands used to fasten equipments and fuselage formers to the chrome-molybden-steel-tube frame. The fastening bands were made either from 1 mm thick steelblate by pressing or from pipe stumps by welding.

The fastening bands were disassembled from the fuselage frames of MY-5, MY-9 and MY-14 at the Finnish Air Force Museum. The broken bolts were released and the twisted bands were straighten. Some bands have been fixed by welding. The condition of the bands was very variable. Some were almost ready after glass bead blasting but some were very corroded. There was original paint inside the bands.

Some fastening bands were found from the storages of the Finnish Air Force Museum and some were made by using original blanks of the State Aircraft Factory.

The bands were cleaned by glass bead blasting and phosphoric acid disposal. The Isotrol Klarlack was painted by brush for priming and Isotrol RAL 7005 was painted by air brush for paint finish.