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Old 01-26-2006 | 11:19 PM
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Default RE: BRIO Construction by the numbers

Dual elevator servos is what I plan to set mine up with.

Finishing. Well, its been a bit of a learning curve to cover again. I've been spoiled by having my planes professionally finished, or flying an ARF for the last few years. I am covering with Ultracoat. With a few pointers from Dave Guerin, I've become very happy with the results. Here are the steps in the covering process.

Use a sanding block with some 220 then 400. I use the 220 to level out the surfaces, then the 400 provides a nice smooth surface to cover. The block is 1 1/2 inch by 3 inch by 9 inch balsa. The balso gives some which makes it nice, yet straight enough to be a good tool.

Starting from the back to the front. White piece goes on first, then the blue piece, then the yellow piece. Its good to cut templates first, and mark the balsa where you want the end points. Finally use a shart exacto knife. I've gone through about a half dozen so far as the dull quickly. But this is important to get nice clean lines. To trim the outboard end of the covering, I pull up the covering about a quarter inch past where I want to cut, put a piece of paper under, then use a straight edge to get a nice straight cut. The covering is overlapped between 3/32 and 1/8 inch. The top is covered first because the dark blue has to overlap the yellow from the bottom. Definitely don't want to overlap the yellow on anything dark, as it shows through.
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