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Old 06-22-2004 | 07:56 AM
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Default RE: GreatPlanes PT-40 construction diary. Any tips/comments welcome!





The fuselage is also under construction now. The two sides was made pretty quickly, as they came in 3 pieces each that was glued together with CA. Then the fuse doublers were layed out (and pinned down of course, one of the fuse doublers had a crazy bending) as accuratly as possible.



Then the two main formers were CA-ed on, with me trying to get them 90* on the side (as the pictures shows, high precision equipment were used ).



Then ive started bulding the 3-part firewall and 3-part wing-bolt support. Epoxy was used and left to dry overnight.



As the last picture shows, I used too much epoxy on the firewall assembly and it resultet in some ugly rock-hard gluebubbles on the sides. Need to sand them down (better find some 40 or 80 grit), or else the firewall wont fit in the fuselage. At leas I learned a valuable lesson about epoxyglue...(dont use to much! ).