A-Justo-Jig
06-10-2011, 04:35 AM
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A-Justo-Jig
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A couple of days ago, a used jig was for sale you-know-where, and it sold for the unheard of price of $311!!! I know that there's a market for them, but holy cow. Glad I have one from many years ago that I still use.
FB
A couple of days ago, a used jig was for sale you-know-where, and it sold for the unheard of price of $311!!! I know that there's a market for them, but holy cow. Glad I have one from many years ago that I still use.
FB
06-10-2011, 05:45 AM
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RE: A-Justo-Jig
My goodness!!!!
I still have my home made wing jig that has 1/4" diameter steel rods 48" long straddling two wooden blocks. Similar to the RCM wing jig.
I have had this for about 25 years now and still use it.
Orlando
I still have my home made wing jig that has 1/4" diameter steel rods 48" long straddling two wooden blocks. Similar to the RCM wing jig.
I have had this for about 25 years now and still use it.
Orlando
06-10-2011, 02:21 PM
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RE: A-Justo-Jig
My jig made it to the trash can about ten years ago .
No one in the clubs I fly with even wanted it gratis [&o] .
Times change though and it was a particularly accurate set up
for the Taurus wing for which it was designed .
When it first appeared it was VERY unusual as you could frame a Taurus wing in
an evening and that was with Testors B and Elmers .
The adhesive revolution hadn't begun at the time .
With fuselage adapters the jig was $35.00 out the door.
Most of us soon went to the straight spar, upside down on a FLAT surface.
No cost for the jig just as fast and we used the rib taper as the dihedral setter .
BTW the spars were Spruce cap strips for full scale A/C so span was no problem .
Still have a l-o-n-g box full from Aircraft Spruce .
Do it that way to this day .
I played with foam wings but they just didn't fill my need as 'built up' does .
Should you wonder who "invented" the foam wing it was Ed Izzo and he demonstrated the technique
and the cutting of cores (his cores were also cored) at a Toledo show around the early to mid sixties .
His core material at that time was open cell florist's foam .
EBS was yet to make it to the market place .
No one in the clubs I fly with even wanted it gratis [&o] .
Times change though and it was a particularly accurate set up
for the Taurus wing for which it was designed .
When it first appeared it was VERY unusual as you could frame a Taurus wing in
an evening and that was with Testors B and Elmers .
The adhesive revolution hadn't begun at the time .
With fuselage adapters the jig was $35.00 out the door.
Most of us soon went to the straight spar, upside down on a FLAT surface.
No cost for the jig just as fast and we used the rib taper as the dihedral setter .
BTW the spars were Spruce cap strips for full scale A/C so span was no problem .
Still have a l-o-n-g box full from Aircraft Spruce .
Do it that way to this day .
I played with foam wings but they just didn't fill my need as 'built up' does .
Should you wonder who "invented" the foam wing it was Ed Izzo and he demonstrated the technique
and the cutting of cores (his cores were also cored) at a Toledo show around the early to mid sixties .
His core material at that time was open cell florist's foam .
EBS was yet to make it to the market place .
