Pa-18cub150

I have yet agene reached an impasse with my first kit. As some of you may know who frequent the Kit Building Forum, and a big thank you to all who have helped me to this point. I am building a Sig Kadet Sr. as my first kit.

I am to a place now where I need to start thinking about the three 5/16"X5/16" square holes for the vertical stab.

What is the best way to make this holes?

Live Wire

The good old #11 hobby knife and it never hits the floor handle first
Use a drill and square the holes to fit . I use a high speed drill so it does not break the sheeting.

js3

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Oh man! At first I thought you were talking about the sound made by nerdy coyotes!

horace315

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use the 1/4 stock to make the pattern,then either dremmel or like Live Wire said #11 xacto.if you use the xacto start slowly tracing the marks then cut deeper each pass until you can punch out the square.

vicman

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I third the blade method. Use a smaller drill bit than the width of your howl

SDCrashmaster

Is "howls" an actual term? Or did he mean "holes"? He used it so consistently that I deemed it was not a typo.
He used it in the thread title, and then agene and agene.

Pa-18cub150

Ok this is what I did. The back hole is just a notch, so I put some adhesive backed sand paper on some 5/16”x3/16” stock and trimmed the sand paper to fit. Then I sanded the back notch with the stock and sandpaper.

On the forward hole and the hole in the horizontal stab I undercut the holes with a #11 blade and dressed them out with my 5/16” sanding stick. This also worked out well as the forward hole is angled.

I don’t think the results came out to bad.

vicman

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LOL, It looks like it worked better than your use of spell check.
Sorry, I just had to do it since you are so consistent.

You did a very nice job of cutting the square holes and it looks to have worked well. I look forward to seeing you finished product.
Hang in there.

Flying Foot Doc

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Nice job. you solved that problem very well. Doc

exeter_acres

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tis looking good.... just wait till you fly your first kit.. it really feels great!

Insanemoondoggie

Wow , the Kadet Sr sure has a lot of sticks in it. Nice work.

Pa-18cub150

When I started putting the fuselage sides together it looked like a miniature barn raising.

Insanemoondoggie

Wow! I`ve built several kits, but never a stick framed one. That looks very time intensive . And it does look like a barn raising. Pretty cool. nice work.

daven

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Looks like very nice work for a first build.

Great job!

quepasa

Wow guys! [X(] I didn't even notice his spellin. Made perfect cents ta me tho til ya bought it up!

Nice job Pa-18! Be sure to check the wing for a warp after it's covered! Its easy to check and fix before ya fly the plane.
This is very imporntant and not alota kits even mention this. Welcome to the brotherhood of builders! Q.

Gray Beard

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Sense when do we mention spelling here, if we did I would be in real trouble. In this case I was wondering if there was A term I haven't heard of before and just had to open the thread. The only thing I would say would be to back up the camera A few inches so we could see more of the plans.
I have never built this kit before and was surprised about all those sticks, it really does look like A barn raising. I haven't built one like this sense the 60 when I bought A Cub kit.
Looks like outstanding work to me and I never did see the problem with the howls.

Live Wire

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Some guy came up with the QUINN CADET, Same plane with sheeted fuse. Not quite as fragil and flys the same as the senior


And looks like a great build to me I have put together about six of them, and spelling didn,t change a thing they all fly great and are not as fragil as the look

Gray Beard

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I have seen three or four of the SRs used now as trainers with just A .46 in them and very surprised at how nice they fly. In this case I am amazed at how nice this build is looking. I guess I will have to post up some photos to show him how you should have CA streaks and runs all over the wood to make A truly strong plane.

MinnFlyer

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I was thinking "Noah's Ark"

Gray Beard

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No Mike, that had more sheeting!!

rmaddy

You're not too far behind me. I'm building one of these as well. It's my first R/C project in over 15 years. Just tonight I added the fiberglass to the wing center section. All I have left now is covering and final assembly. It's a real nice kit and from what I see in your pictures your are doing excellent work. Nice tight joints in the tail pieces. I just got my second kit yesterday - a GP Super Sportster 60. I should have that done too before I even get to fly the Kadet. Hopefully by then we'll start getting some flying weather again here.

Enjoy.

Pa-18cub150

Thanks for the compliments on the build quality. I think things are going to slow down as far as progress goes. I need to make a tower order for a fuel tank and covering. Money is always tight this time of year, and this year is no exception. It looks like late January or mid February before I will have any extra cash to divert to my hobby’s.

I am also looking forward to my next build after this project. I just don’t know what it will be, Maybe a Sr. Telemaster or Slow-Polk. I have an ARF’s to finish first though.

rmaddy

Don't worry about slow builds too much. Quality takes time. It will pay off when it comes time to fly. I keep a little construction log. Just a sentence or two of what I work on each day plus how much time. I've spent almost 80 hours on my Kadet so far. It will be close to a 100 hours by the time it's 100% complete. I'm pretty anal about getting everything just right so I know it really adds to the build time. Plus the 80 hours so far are spread over 2 1/2 months. Part of that is me spending the last month putting together a new workshop and magnetic building system.

The most important thing is to enjoy the building process. I get great satisfaction from completing my own airplane kit. I know some just want an ARF and go fly. That's fine for them but not me. As they say, it's the journey, not the destination, right?

I already have my second kit waiting - a GP Super Sportster 60 kit. I also have 4 sets of plans I intend to do next. I really like building from plans (I did two about 17 years ago). Oddly, it isn't much more effort than a kit. The extra time really boils down to two things - researching and buying the required materials, and the extra effort of making all the wing ribs yourself. It's even more satisfying to fly a plane you built completely yourself. It must be really something for the guys that build their own designs. Maybe some day I'll give that a try too.

I don't know why they call this a hobby.