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Old 10-13-2007, 11:27 PM
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Default RE: Herr Pitts Special Kit Build Thread

Glued braces to formers 6 & 7. The instructions list to glue these to formers 7 & 8 but this is incorrect as 8 is the base of the fuselage tail.



Glued the fuse doublers in place...



Front fuselage former where the engine box will connect. I'll be needing to cut a hole in this to accomodate my fuel tank.



Formers 3 and 4 on the fuselage top piece. This is out of order compared to what the build manual recommends, however, once these set, I can get the sides on and tape it all up and then weigh it in place.



The weight on the formers and the tape wrapped around hold things tight and square. Going to let this sit overnight so it's fully cured. Used a toothpick and q-tip to assure complete and clean fillets of glue inside. Gonna drop CA in a few places that didn't get a decent amount of glue. Mainly the former tabs. Hard to get glue inside there.



Where the sides were not held tight by the tape alone, I added pieces of foam to help get pressure where needed to get a good bond with the formers.

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