Looking in the scrap boxes, I had almost everything I’d need to finish. What I didn’t have was the exact spar material. I needed 1/8” x1/4” balsa sticks, which I didn’t have. But I did have a 1/8”x1/2” stick that was long enough, so out came the balsa stripper. If Y’all haven’t got one of these in your tool kit, you should get one. It’s something that I waited entirely too long to acquire.
Then it was just putting it all together. Here’re the L.E/T.E./bottom pieces installed:
And the upper spar installed:
And ready to cover:
The yellow covering is the last of some of the new, poor quality MonoKote I had, and the red is something that was in the bottom of the box, but I don’t know exactly what it is. No markings on the roll.
The finished weight is a little more than I was hoping for at 5.25 ounces, but it’ll still zip on an .049. I’m not sure if I’ll stick with this engine. I have a Golden Bee, or I have an anodized red stunt tank I can put on something. Don’t know how I’ll go with this. Maybe I’ll just leave it as is. Who knows. I was right when I though it looked nose heavy. I cut the nose down 1/8” from what the plans said, and it’s still a tad nose heavy. Ah, well. It’s done now.
This is why I like scratch building from old plans. I get a plane that looks like no other. And using scraps helps get rid of the materials laying around. So now that it’s finished, it needs a name. What name for a plane built from leftovers that I scratched from a magazine page? Why,
"Scrap ‘N Snip" of course!
Mark