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Old 01-22-2005 | 06:57 PM
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Default RE: Sig Hog Bipe Build

dmanson-sorry to hear about your Ultra Stick. I have the US 60 and am on my third one. First was my fault, I dumb thumbed it in when I was inverted. The second, I was in a split 'ess' and about 3/4 of the way through, the right wing completely separated from the fuse and the left part of the wing. I hadn't built that one and when we investigated we found that the back 1/2 of the right side of the wing joiner had no epoxy on it. Since it didn't have anything to hold it, it split right along the joiner where there wasn't any epoxy. I felt kinda bad, but since I bought it already assembled, just to get one back in the air, I knew it wasn't my doing. On the third one, I made real sure that the wing joiner was epoxied well on both back and front and both sides.

BTW: If you look in my pics, you can see that I already have the trailing edge shimmed and ready to start the sheeting process. It is my next step in my construction. I too glued the LE sheeting in as you suggested, but may have put too much glue on it to begin with. It held the sheeting away from the start of the rib. I probably should have used epoxy instead of CA. That way I would have been able to make the adjustments on the first glueing. That's it for today, will add another update tomorrow. Will probably knock off a little earlier since the playoffs are on.