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Old 06-21-2015 | 07:59 PM
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52larry52
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OrcaBoat3, My friend, you violated a major part of the "modelers creed", you threw something out! Don't you know we are all PACK RATS. That wing wasn't broken or "too dangerous to fly again". It just was "too dangerous to fly again until you fixed it"! You missed a golden opportunity to do "surgery" on a model part that you couldn't possibly do harm to. You were going to throw it out anyway so why not experiment a little with your exacto knife, a saw, and some epoxy to see what you can make out of it. Seriously, what I am suggesting is you could have saved the wing by striping all the covering, going in and reinforcing the weak area of the wing and putting it back into service saving the hunt for a replacement and upping your repair and building skills. It would have been a no cost fun adventure for you. But, too late now if the trash man has picked up the garbage. If the wing had a weak spar it is possible to install a new one right along side the not so good one by cutting a small spot out of each rib just aft of the existing spar and epoxying in a new one. If the center joint was failing, it too could have been repaired then the outside reinforced with fiberglass cloth at the joint. I know you are in the beginners forum but that doesn't matter, fixing these planes is a fact of life when you fly them. The other easy thing to do in a case like this is after the weak part of the wing is repaired before you recover it , fabricate some wing struts for it and install hard mount points for them in the wing and the bottom of the fuselage. Functional wing struts will add a lot of strength to a high wing installation. Just thinking about it as I blab on here..........by any chance is that wing a rubber band on type? maybe the wing didn't actually "fold", it may have lifted off the wing saddle due to weak or too few rubber bands. Any chance that's what happened or did you find actual damage to the wing. Just trying to figure out why this happened. If it is gone you still need a replacement wing.

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