He withdrew a penknife from his desk drawer and began to cut the fiberglass tape that held the top of the box in place.
Broken poles should be replaced, but you can repair them temporarily; wrap a broken pole firmly with fiberglass tape and handle it gently.
Seams are reinforced with fiberglass tape and thickened epoxy.
The combination of fiberglass tape and epoxy glue results in a composite material providing an extremely strong joint.
Heat paper can be prepared by impregnating paper or a fiberglass tape with a slurry of the mixture of fuel and oxidizer.
The filled joints are taped like conventional gypsum board, but with fiberglass tapes that provide additional water resistance.
"All plaster cracks should be filled with spackle and taped with fiberglass tape," he said.
A better and more permanent wrap would be a fiberglass tape that is activated by water.
An alternative is fiberglass tape, which is self-sticking and requires no initial bed of compound, but it is often about three times as expensive.
A second larger hang glider was taken to Dockweiler Beach; it featured a 4 mil polyester film reinforced with fiberglass tape.