bruce88123 - took your suggestion and weighed down the doubler vs pinning it. Used 130 lbs of dumbells on top of some MDF board pieces and it worked great.



Glue squeaked out of about 95% of the edges so the glue coverage was good. Hit the areas where no glue seeped out with CA.

Sig pre-drills the dowel holes (vs their instructions stating you need to drill them) so alignment of fuselage and the doubler was a cinch. Covered the doubler side with glue and stacked it on the fuselage side, inserted the two dowels through both layers, stacked the wax paper, MDF and weights accordingly, spun the dowels every 5 min or so for the first twenty minutes so they would not set and then pulled them out. Left the weight on for about 4 hours a piece. Worked well!

When I glued the second side, I layed down the first side I glued together next to it to reference to make sure I was gluing the other side properly. [8D]

Total build time: 17 hours

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