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Old 10-06-2006 | 10:18 PM
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Default RE: Avistar assembly question

Pete1burn,

When you epoxy the wing halves together, you want all the joining surfaces are well coated with at 30 minute epoxy. You want to make sure epoxy is down in the joiner cavity, on the joiner/dihedral brace, and on the center ribs. You also want to make sure you remove the covering from the rib faces to be glued - you want as much wood to wood joining as possible. Don't worry about excess epoxy running out since you can wipe that off with a paper towel wetted with alcohol.

When you join them, make sure the wing tips are parallel (no twist in the wing), then secure the wing with several pieces of tape to make sure it doesn't move around on you.

Hogflyer