RE: Sig LT-40 Build
WHOA!! hold on all.
A glue joint is a glue joint. Period. The only thing epoxy offers over ca is buttering capability. The strength of the joint, if it was a good mechanical joint in the first place will not change with the type of glue. I've got Kadets older than most of you that the firewalls were installed with CA and have held up fine, training people mind you, for years because it was a good joint to begin with.
In the case of somegoofs wing, let's understand what the parts are doing. The dihedral joint wing joiner is just that, it holds the dihedral angle and carries the loads from one wing side to the other. As I recall that piece of wood sits in a pretty tight pocket formed by the upper and lower spars, front and rear shear webbing and the first set of ribs. Once the two panels of the wing are joined that brace is not going anywhere. It is in a tightly sealed pocket. Now ANY glue flowed down into that hole before or after the joiner is in place is going to stop any minor movement between the upper and lower spars and the joiner. All three, CA, wood glue and epoxy have about the same capacity to do that work in this area. The mechanical fit of the joiner in the pocket is doing the work the glue is just minimizing the ability of the wood to loosen up the joint. The wing panels are held together by the friction in the wing joint pocket AND all of the glue on the flat surfaces of the innermost ribs. And if you goof that up, there's a pair of suspenders covering everything in the form of the fiberglass tape you put over the joint.
If you did use just CA don't worryaboudit. Add the FG tape and press on.
Um, oh yeah, me... aero engineer, former Chief Structural engineer on the USAF C/KC-135 fleet. Glue up 1:1 wood airplanes too.
Tom