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Old 04-15-2003 | 12:47 AM
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Default The Lightning Bug Project

Ok, it sounds like you just went a little overboard with the glue and water. As I mentioned earlier, just a thin coat on the wood. Place each sheet of balsa on the foam and then tape all the seams. Now just spray some water on the outside of the skins. Enough moisture will soak through to activate the glue. If possible, you should put the cores back in their saddles and weight them down on a flat surface. I use a 18" X 4' piece of MDF to weigh down the cores. If you don't have the saddles, which you didn't because I couldn't fit them into the box, you can use a bunch of magazines or sand bags to weigh the wing down.

Typically I use Pro Bond on larger wings and 3M77 on smaller ones or where I do the D- tube & cap stripping method.

Make sure you seal the cap of your Pro Bond with electrical tape after using it. I had a bottle go bad because it absorbed moisture from the air.

What, moisture in Vancouver? No really it's true! :drowning: