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Old 12-02-2015 | 05:46 PM
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Ok. After working on getting the Czech Mate ready as well as Jeff's smaller size Tsutonami I had a few minutes Sunday during the time Eric Jaggi was getting caught up on the Czech Mate group build ( Found on another thread here) to do some work on the Conquest 1.

Here is the start of one of the Horizontal tail haves.

The two completed halves ready to be joined.

Here is the strengthening mod that was done that wasn't shown in the Czech Mate group build. First I marked back 1" from the trailing edge to locate where I wanted to place the carbon fiber rod then using the rod with a piece of sand paper wrapped around it I sanded just a little over half the thickness of the rod on both halves and dry fitted to make sure it would clear inside when the two halves were sandwiched together.

Then it was glued in using epoxy and some micro balloons before the halve were glued together.

The halves are now glued together. This was how far I got while Eric was finishing his vertical stab.
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