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now its time for the ailerons. After forty years of diging out hing slots with a knife, my wife got me a slot machine for cristmas last year. If you plan to do much building I would highly recomend getting one. I like to cut the slots befor sanding the angle, its easyer to find the center. Next will be to join the wing haves. hkbii.

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Joining the wing hkbii.

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Howdie gents, lets take a look at the servo hatch. Well I shure goofed. I put the mounts on the top of the wing.[&o] I put a new sat on the bottom. I cut the hatch for a tight fit then tape them to the wing. from the top of the wing I set in two strips 1/8x 3/8ths one on each side. These strips should fit between the mounts. After the glue has dried sand the eages about 3/32 sd off each side, this will allow room for the covering. then I put tape on the mounts. now I put the hatches backin and then sand flush. hkbii

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now I'll glass the center section. I will be useing a polyester fab, and epoxy . Useing the sealing iron I heat the fab, this takes the tension out and lets it lay flat. I mix the epoxy and then add about 30 % alcohol to thin it out. with a foam brush spread a thin coat on the bottom of the wing. now lay the fabric down and starting in the middle spread a thin coat of epoxy. use just enough to wet the fabric and work out all the air. Now do the top of the wing. After the epoxy dries sand it with 220 foam sanding pad. use a lite touch and small circular motions. Now put on one more coat and sand agin. hkbii.

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Howdie gents, Now lets move on to the tail. frist the stab and elevators. I like to cut all the parts and dry fit them. I like to use pins and blocks to lock the parts inplace.hkbii

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Now lets glue it all together. I'll cut the elevators when they come off the board, and sand the outside and the top and bottom smooth. hkbii

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Now the stab and rudder. I hope this is not getting to boring. hkbii

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Howdie gents, heres the tail, sanded and ready to hinge. hkbii

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Howdie gents, here are most of the parts for the fuse, ready to start gluing. hkbii.

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Howdie gents, Heres the longerons and the doublers. hkbii.

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Howdie gents, well its been a long day in the shop but its starting to look like an airplane. I have found four small errors and fixed them. Heres a pic.hkbii

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[img][/img]Sorry, the pic was to big. I'll try agin. hkbii

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One mor try.hkbii.

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Howdie gents, Its now time to start the canopy. hkbii.

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Howdie gents, didnt work in the shop today. It was shuch a nice day that I loaded up some planes and whent flying. Its been in the high 30s and raining so the snow had melted off the lake. hkbii.

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Howdie gents, I hope you had a nice weekend, this was the nicest weekend that we've had up here in the last four months. It was shure nice to play in the sun shine. Well lets get bask to zip. today I mounted the wing and layed up the canopy. hkbii..

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at this time she weights 8 3/4 oz. hkbii.

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Howdie gents. Today it's time to do the vert, stab, filler blocks. I like to use a filler block for the stabs. then use a glue stick and attche the whole thing to the fuse, and then sand to shape. hkbii.

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Now it's time for the fun stuff, sanding. I start with a small sanding bar and take it down close to the shape that I whant then I switch to a foam sanding block (150 grit) and work it in closer. to finish I'll use a 220 grit foam sanding pad. hkbii

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oopps, heres a pic. hkbii.

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The tail fit. hkbii.

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Here she is sanded. hkbii.

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Howdie gents, The motor mount for the AP 0.09 came in yesterday. I cut the fuse down to fit. I picked the AP because I thought it would be nice not haveing a muffler hanging out in the wind. I hope that this is a good engine, it shure is tight. hkbii.

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After the cut.hkbii

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Howdie gents, Well I mane some more sawdust. I got the engine mounted and a good start on the cowling. with the engine 14 1/2 oz. hkbii