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Old 02-08-2008 | 06:37 PM
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... We'll see - if today's build is any indication, the bottom wing will be mostly complete in a couple of days.
Yeah, right. Well, I did say mostly

I have taken the bottom wings off the building board at this point. The solid block trailing egde has been glued on and is curing. Only a few small steps remain before joining the lower wings - a major milestone in the build. I need to start thinking about ordering the Saito 100 since that's needed for the first step in the Fuselage assembly. By the way, I was at the LHS the other day and I picked up the Dubro composite landing gear that was suggested earlier in the thread. When I get around to it, I'll snap a picture of the kit supplied gear next to Dubro's. The new gear is significantly less flimsy.

A few comments on the Dual Servo Setup. For whatever reason the diagram that accompanies the manual addendum just didn't register with me. Maybe I enhaled too many CA fumes or something ... who knows. The pictures that accompanied the addendum didn't really help. The directions talked about putting the capstrips on the servo bay flush with the "inside" W-2 rib. Inside from which perspective? I finally just got out the pieces and the light went on - I snapped a few pictures so others won't suffer the same Brain Fart as I [sm=bananahead.gif].

Instead of cap stripping the servo bay, I decided to first apply the 1/4"x1/2" hatch rails. These have to be cut to shape - note the addendum's diagram is not to scale - don't cut the pieces off the sheet, use the physical wing. Picture1 shows the rails clamped in place. Once the hatch rails are cured, I added the cap strips - which to me were on the "outside" of the W-2 ribs that make up the servo bay (picture3).

The rest of the servo hatch build takes place just prior to joining the lower wing halves.

Next I added the trailing edge block, taped and snapped Picture4.

Looking back at my pictures, here's a couple that I took during the lower wing build that never got posted here...

Picture1&2 - Servo hatch rails glued in, clamped, and curing
Picture3 - Cap strips added to "outside" of hatch rails.
Picture4 - Trailing edge
Picture5&6 - Sheer webbing
Picture7 - Front 1/2 done...

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