Wow[8D] everything's ok . NO problems. I feel good. I'm covering if no sujestions are made. !

It all looks fine. Go for the covering.

EXCAP232

Thankx for the go ahead. And thankx to ALL that replied

that wing is gonna break again if it did it once under flying loads/ landing loads i say rebuild it the right way. i ahte arf's (c my sig) that wing is splinters what you do to it?? land on the wings?[sm=confused.gif][sm=spinnyeyes.gif][sm=eek.gif][sm=cool.gif][sm=tongue.gif][sm=wink.gif][sm=RAINFRO.gif] id rebuild it and maybe fully sheer the wing and fully sheet (since the lt 40 is a floater ne way this should help that problem too ) ill post pics of my mark II wing to show what im talking about. the extra sheeting takes a lot of load off the ribs... also lets not harp on the rib spar mix up shal we?? i think you already made the error clear to everyone. live and learn. not to bash on arf's (well maybe it is) but my tiger trainer i had ages ago had a similar crush problem after i shiped it somewhere. (you may ask how i fixed it, i didnt its still in my basement as a last resort for needed parts [>:] although you gotta love the solid play construction... sigh that plane weighs a ton and a half.



I closed a garage door on my mustang, knocked it on the floor from my 4' high work bench and it had less damage than that![sm=biggrin.gif]


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wow that was fun ne one else wann try??

Ok Balsa Master. I got it

What is sheeting?.

I really want to get 3-4 more flight before it gets cold. Can i cover it up fly then do the sujested recomendations?. I think someone stepped on the wing. likely not from flight loads as stated above.

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See the third picture in you post #25 in this thread...

See the excess glue that has spilled out of the repair n the rib, and onto the flat balsa sheet ...

Well, that balsa sheet is sheeting ... ;-)

gus

P.S. where do you fly in Toronto? I'm there too. I have a fair amount of building / repair experience, can maybe cast another eye over your work.

Perhaps that did happen. But what i can tell you is i have
put my LT-40 ARF through living he!l in the air for over
2 years and have not had any broken wing parts.

I PM'ED you GUS

patch up all this and it should be ok, buy i really sugest rebuilding it (you probably added 2 or 3 oz with all that CA) or finish learning with this one then buy a low wing and fly this one till it buries itdelf for you, saves you some time :-)
note that i the pics were compressed so the writing loks poor and mispelled.


also if you can wait a couple days ill post some pics i took and show you sheeting, or if you get it deom the explanation earlier thats ok too.sheeting makes the ribs into I beams making them less likely to twist and crush.

Pics

lol single handedly keeping the CA companies in buisness are you??

yea that should b ok just patch up the rib in that second pic and it should be ok without full rebuild for a little while but my guess is that it will break again. and when it does that is time to graduate to a low ing trainer :-)

CA? NAH ITS way too expensive

GOOP is my name. Sticks anthing to anything,cures slowly,inexpensive

Ill patch it up. should i put in sheer webs or leave them out?

Thankx