Yesterday got the horizontal stabilizer glued. This involved the following steps:
- Marking where the back of the stab resides on the fuselage when in the appropriate place
- Using measuring tapes from the trailing outter corners of the wing to the same corresponding place on each half of the stab
- Making sure to position is such that the distance is equal
- This took a lot of tweaking to get right… at one point wasn’t sure what was going on as things looked way out
- Once satisfied with positioning traced fuselage on bottom of stab for glue placement
- Mixed batch of glue
- Applied to top of fuselage and bottom of stabilizer
- Repositioned stabilizer, clamping leading edge into place and took measurements to ensure accuracy before clamping back into place
- Verified positioning with measurements, eyeballing doesn’t cut it as decieving
- Placed weights on top of the front of the fuselage to counter clamps
Satisified with how everything was, left it for the night to dry.