Thursday, Peter brought over his epoxy and filler powder so I could mix up a batch and smoothen out the surfaces on the bottom of the wing. First, finished sanding the W-ST-2’s to be as flush as we could to the W-SH-6 sheet. Then using a popsical stick I applied the filler thick and Peter […]
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Thursday, utilized the slot machine (motorized hinge slotting machine by Great Planes) to make hinges in the following control surfaces: Ailerons Elevators Stabilizer I definitely need more practice with this as I always have a tendancy to tilt the machine towards me causing me to come out the side. That said though, made some solid
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Thursday, I got my hands on the hinging tool again, and this time it worked! Started by verifying the hinge locations and making clear center marking on both the wing and ailerons… verifying we were using the correct aileron for the side we were working with. Once that was done used a centering tool to
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Yesterday I got the the W-ST-2s that I previously made glued and pinned as part of the WC assembly. For this I needed to make sure they sat flush on top of the WE’s (outer pieces of the assembly) and fully covered the angled WC. To improve the fit I sanded off some of the
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Monday, worked on getting the W-SH-6 sheeting in place which invoked getting the 3/4” holes drilled. The process was as follows: Hold sheeting in its proper place Bring wing bolt up from the bottom of the wing and make an indentation in the bottom of the sheeting Mark the centre of the indent with a
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Sunday, I continued work on the WC assembly building upon Saturdays success. I started by building the other W-ST-2 (top in image below), which invovled going through the same process as in the previous post and then moved on to the 3/32” balsa sheeting piece W-SH-6.
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Saturday, I experiemented with how to build the rounded edge (W-ST-2s) pieces for the WC assembly… which is what I’m calling the group of pieces that congregate around the bolt hole openings on the bottom of the wing.
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Wednesday, made some more progress on getting the wing bolting system in place. First thing was to get the hole locations marked on the wing hold down plate (FUE). Since I already had the holes drilled into the wing I used the 1/4” bit to place through the holes, while the wing was held in
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