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Old 08-02-2008 | 01:00 AM
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Servo lead tubes in the wing panel. Made from 8.5x11 printer paper split in half (longways) and rolled up. 2 pieces here to make it long enough to reach out to where the servo mount is located. Couple drops of thin CA and it's done.

Some pics of the leading edge sheeting. I used thin CA to tack it in place. Actually my friends wife put the CA on while I held the leading edge of the sheeting in place. She didn't even glue my fingers down. Pete would have dumped CA all over my hands and left me stuck to the sheeting. ON PURPOSE!!! [>:]

Thats what buddies are for, I guess.................

After the leading edge of sheeting was stuck down with thin CA, I went back and ran medium CA along the tops of all the ribs and a thin bead of CA down the main spar. Hold it all in place for a few minutes.


I set up a jig to hold the back of the ribs in place while I put the trailing edge piece on. The ribs have tabs to keep them elevated off the bench. I wanted it all to be pinned down while I put the glue on the trailing edge piece, but I didn't want to put pins through the ribs. A piece of balsa about 3/16" thick and one thin piece of sheeting was the right thickness to provide support under the trailing edge of each rib and also made a nice flat surface to glue my trailing edge piece on. Not sure if that makes sense. I made a jig and it worked really nice.

Sanding the trailing edge piece to match the rib profile on top. Some trailing edge sheeting and center section sheeting.

Took it off the board and checked it for alignment. It's straight enough.
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