Your best building blunders! ...post em' here.
04-03-2009 | 06:19 PM
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RE: Your best building blunders! ...post em' here.
first Arf I ever put together the first step was to glue the dihedral brace(double 1/4" plywood) in one wing with 30 min epoxy after it was dry I went to put the two wings together and I had reversed the brace so dihedral was backwards and the is no unepoxying what a mess.
04-03-2009 | 10:49 PM
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RE: Your best building blunders! ...post em' here.
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Requires a LOT of rudder.
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A left-handed Bi-plane, I've always wanted one of those.
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Two left wing halves. [:@]
Two left wing halves. [:@]
A left-handed Bi-plane, I've always wanted one of those.
04-03-2009 | 11:01 PM
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Oh this could hurt!
I had a nice set of plans for a Panic Bipe a nice aerobatic light weight "Magic" like stunt bipe. Good plane.
But we were on a SPAD kick and Yep I Spadded it out. It looked really cool. Flew like a lead sled. We flew it three times that day then I took it home and dismantled it that night.
I had a nice set of plans for a Panic Bipe a nice aerobatic light weight "Magic" like stunt bipe. Good plane.
But we were on a SPAD kick and Yep I Spadded it out. It looked really cool. Flew like a lead sled. We flew it three times that day then I took it home and dismantled it that night.
04-04-2009 | 12:03 AM
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most of these happened years ago..... i ve put langing gear backwards on a tail dragger. aileron backwards, crossed fuelines, the most recent was i got so into CA hinging my new plane i hinged the elevators before i was supposed to
04-04-2009 | 12:06 AM
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RE: Your best building blunders! ...post em' here.
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most of these happened years ago..... i ve put langing gear backwards on a tail dragger. glued aileron backwards...found out when it came time to do other one, crossed fuelines(found out when i tried fueling it), the most recent was i got so into CA hinging my new plane i hinged the elevators before i was supposed to
most of these happened years ago..... i ve put langing gear backwards on a tail dragger. glued aileron backwards...found out when it came time to do other one, crossed fuelines(found out when i tried fueling it), the most recent was i got so into CA hinging my new plane i hinged the elevators before i was supposed to
04-04-2009 | 01:28 AM
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RE: Your best building blunders! ...post em' here.
ORIGINAL: chashint
Well my favorite trick is to set the root rib perfectly on one wing panel and then set it backwards on the second wing panel making a joint that produces a perfectly flat wing when in fact it is supposed to have dihedral in it.
You would think that doing this once would be enough, but alas it has happened twice and neither time did I discover it until it was time to join the wings.
And just to finish this off one time I managed to get both hands glued to the airplane and my elbow glued to my thigh through my jeans .... yeah yeah I know it sounds like the old Tim Taylor Toolman skit .... but I did not call out for the wife to come and help, skin and balsa are pretty close in strength, the plane had skin stuck to it and my fingers had balsa stuck to them .... and just in case you were wondering fingernail polish remover will cause a rash on your thigh before it softens the CA enough to get your elbow off your jeans and your jeans off your thigh.
Well my favorite trick is to set the root rib perfectly on one wing panel and then set it backwards on the second wing panel making a joint that produces a perfectly flat wing when in fact it is supposed to have dihedral in it.
You would think that doing this once would be enough, but alas it has happened twice and neither time did I discover it until it was time to join the wings.
And just to finish this off one time I managed to get both hands glued to the airplane and my elbow glued to my thigh through my jeans .... yeah yeah I know it sounds like the old Tim Taylor Toolman skit .... but I did not call out for the wife to come and help, skin and balsa are pretty close in strength, the plane had skin stuck to it and my fingers had balsa stuck to them .... and just in case you were wondering fingernail polish remover will cause a rash on your thigh before it softens the CA enough to get your elbow off your jeans and your jeans off your thigh.
Sounds more like Jim on American Pie.
04-04-2009 | 01:39 AM
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My biggest blunder I hope I never top. This happened about 17 years ago. I was building a scratchbuilt biplane from plans, and one of the stringers was a little off after using CA.(yes, another CA incident). I was using an Xacto knife with a #11 blade, left hand wrapped around the fuselage and right hand digging away at the CA when the knife slipped. I jabbed the blade into the index finger of my left hand to the bone right at the top knuckle. I think I sliced too because the scar is about half an inch long. So that plane was built with blood and sweat. Luckily the kitchen sink was only 5 feet away so I didn't get too much blood all over the kitchen. Fortunately I didn't have to make a run to the hospital for that one. I have to look hard now to see the scar.
04-04-2009 | 05:57 AM
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I had these deer skin cloths like the yellow ones used to wash a car well while gluing my ca hinge the little tip came off the ca bottle. Ca went everywhere I grabbed one of these cloths and got it glued to my fingers funny thing about deer skin and ca it gets VERY HOT FAST glued to my fingers and smoking like crazy and burning me I had to just rip it off OUTCH!
04-04-2009 | 07:03 AM
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This blunder was not mine, but rather one I was told about.
A plane was for sale at a flea market that the seller stated it while it was a good looking plane, it was a handful to fly. The buyer, after close examination, discovered the semi-semetrical wing was built upside down. The result was the plane would fly "inverted" except when inverted. Think about that one for a while.
DaveB
A plane was for sale at a flea market that the seller stated it while it was a good looking plane, it was a handful to fly. The buyer, after close examination, discovered the semi-semetrical wing was built upside down. The result was the plane would fly "inverted" except when inverted. Think about that one for a while.
DaveB
04-04-2009 | 09:16 AM
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RE: Your best building blunders! ...post em' here.
Here's another one, fresh off the workbench...
If your trainer does not have clear windows and the wing rubber bands on (with what 30 or so rubber bands), installing the Voltwatch inside the radio compartment is not all that usefull!
Don
If your trainer does not have clear windows and the wing rubber bands on (with what 30 or so rubber bands), installing the Voltwatch inside the radio compartment is not all that usefull!
Don
