SIG Senior wing joiner problem
03-07-2010, 04:21 PM
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SIG Senior wing joiner problem
I am assembling a SIG Senior ARF. So far, it's been nothing really unusual, until I went to join the wing halves. I intend to glue them together, but there is still the matter of installing the aluminum dihedral brace which is supposed to slide into pre-built slots in each wing half. It won't go in either one without (in my opinion) WAY too much force. I haven't even got it to fit in them all the way even though I sanded the wing openings a bit with an emory board and the cleaned up the brace itself with a drum sander on a dremel to get rid of some flashing that I thought might be the issue.
Has anyone else had this problem, and if so, how did you get past it?
Thanks for taking the time to look at this postand thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Dzl
Has anyone else had this problem, and if so, how did you get past it?
Thanks for taking the time to look at this postand thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Dzl
03-07-2010, 08:03 PM
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RE: SIG Senior wing joiner problem
The brace should slip into the wing with only a small amount of effort.
I would call SIG and ask them to resolve the issue.
I am curious as to why you are going to glue the wing halves together. That is going to make for a very big wing to transport.
Todd
I would call SIG and ask them to resolve the issue.
I am curious as to why you are going to glue the wing halves together. That is going to make for a very big wing to transport.
Todd
03-07-2010, 08:08 PM
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RE: SIG Senior wing joiner problem
I have an email in to SIG, but I was hoping to get some more work done on it tonite. Ah, well.
As for gluing the wings together, I have a van to transport my stuff to the field which is only about 3 miles from me. So it's no big deal.
Thanx for the reply,
Dzl
As for gluing the wings together, I have a van to transport my stuff to the field which is only about 3 miles from me. So it's no big deal.
Thanx for the reply,
Dzl
03-09-2010, 06:41 PM
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RE: SIG Senior wing joiner problem
Just to finish off this thread in case someone else has this problem in the future:
SIG responded quickly and suggested I use magic marker on the dihedral blade to mark the high points, shine a flashlight down the wing slot, then sand off the high spots.
I couldn't see anything past 3-4 inches down the wing slot.
So, I made a sanding stick the same width as the dihedral blade and tried that. No joy. So then I made a tool from a thin piece of plywood with a "spade" X-acto blade on the end of it. This I worked down the corners of the slot several times. Eventually, after shaking out some junk and running the sanding stick down a few more times, the dihedral blade finally went to the bottom of the slot. The wing halves are now joined (until crash do they part).
Dzl
SIG responded quickly and suggested I use magic marker on the dihedral blade to mark the high points, shine a flashlight down the wing slot, then sand off the high spots.
I couldn't see anything past 3-4 inches down the wing slot.
So, I made a sanding stick the same width as the dihedral blade and tried that. No joy. So then I made a tool from a thin piece of plywood with a "spade" X-acto blade on the end of it. This I worked down the corners of the slot several times. Eventually, after shaking out some junk and running the sanding stick down a few more times, the dihedral blade finally went to the bottom of the slot. The wing halves are now joined (until crash do they part).
Dzl
