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Old 07-04-2004 | 12:49 PM
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Default RE: GreatPlanes PT-40 construction diary. Any tips/comments welcome!

Yeah. Most other kits dont do this. Very strange for such a (so far) great manual to tell me to glue the stab and fin. Someone outh to send the GP folks a note on this.

Btw, got myself together and faced my biggest construction fear....hinge slotting....[:@]..damn i hate that. The hinges on my two minor sailplanes are a real $£€[:@][:'(] piece of work. Nomatter how much i try, I still manage to get them abit wrong, so the surfaces are bend and not good looking. After cutting one slot, i gave up the idea, even with hte good backing from the manual. (And it doesnt help that the elevator surface that came with the kit got a nasty bend in it either)

So now im gonna order myself one of those [link=http://www.dubro.com/DU-BRO/DUB_CAT/DUB37.html]Dubro Hinge Slotter Kits [/link] to do the job for me. That kit looks just lovely, even if it if does cost $15 here in norway. I want that included center/parallell-guide REALLY bad. Also getting dubro pinned hinges that fits the kit nicely.