Got building again today, it is starting to feel like winter is coming up here in the North so I bunkered down in my basement and got going again after a few days off.

I installed the control rods today, as well as finished off the formers on for the sides, all is looking well.

The routes the control rods are taking are strange to me, I have never had rods cross before, but they are installed as per the plans, I guess the designers know more about this than I do.

I am going to glass this thing for sure - at least the fuse. I went out and found a local place that sells .058 oz fiber glass cloth, and has a great selection of resins, tools ect for working with this stuff. They are an industrial supply company that specializes in composites, great place, lots of help too.

Anyhow, I got some cloth, low viscosity resin (I think it is the laminating resin) and some micro balloons. I will be doing a test on another kit that is in the finishing stage right now - it is a .20 Size Texan, I don't think I will ever fly it, so it will be come my learning plane for glass finishing.

Today I mixed a batch of the expoy and Micro Balloons to fill in some low spots on the fuse, it was pretty easy, but I used more balloons than I would have thought. It is almost ready to sand down now, once that is done I should have a nice smooth surface to work on , and I will glass the sucker!

I haev too many projects on the go right now, the Chippy, the Texan and a PT 40 Trainer that I have 90% done. Now I am reading the Composites pages to try and figure out how to make a fiberglass fuse plugs for my next project - somebody save me I must be losing my mind.