RCU Forums - View Single Post - rubber bands or bolt on wings????
View Single Post
Old 08-06-2002 | 07:27 AM
  #4  
Rodney
Senior Member
 
Joined: Dec 2001
Posts: 7,769
Likes: 0
Received 6 Likes on 5 Posts
From: FL
Default rubber bands or bolt on wings????

Be sure to take the above advice about making the mateing surface between the wing and fuselage flush. You should also reduce the size of the nylon bolts. Use 8-32 as maximum (you can really get by safely with 6-32 nylong) if you plane weighs less than 8 pounds. The 1/4-20's that usually come with kits is much to large and strong. The structure will break before the bolts will. I use only 10-32's on my 15 to 20 pound big birds and have never had a failure other than when I have had a case of dumb thumbs and then the bolts broke before structure just as they should.