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https://stunthanger.com/smf/arf's/strega-a-r-c-build/ heres mine . Will look n see if ive any usefull pictures , of inside centersection .
Theres a few inches between the spars there .
Heres mine flying . 76 Oz. Royal 46 . 12 x 6 . 70 ft .01`8 lastrate .
A good pilot press ganged two minutes earlier . Mayve flown a Strega Before . Ive no idea . He never held this handle before .
Picked up the phone & hoped Id hit ' film ' , so not a entirely useless effort .
Chop the C/S sheeting out BEHIND the crown , work forward to the ply mout , still 1/2 inck plus aft of the spars .
Feed a thead through towed by a leadout , if your pulling them .
Tho possable to feed 20 gauge wire through to tow in a leadout ,
the front ones awkward .
So some upholsterers thread , taped at the tip and fuse. gets a lead rope installed before you get all artistic in the bellcrank department .
A cheap 3 mm bolt & a couple of nuts is the stock set up , with a paxilon bellcrank. Brown fibre stuff .
Addn ;
The ' Top Block ' is about 5 parts . little piece at front . along to canopy- a curved sheet with a center spar . Cockpit sides . another curved sheet . a tailplane block .
I believe the front ply formers go above the ' split line ' . And the rest .
But Id replace it with a continuous 5/8 or 3/4 sheet . hollowed . Setting a drill 1/8 ( a steel spacer ) off the table in a drill press - Holding the outer carved block & square ' at the mark ' against the table . Firmly anyway , gets a whole lot of 1/8 inch thick indexes . Chisels & 60 Wt sandpaper on various rouned things gets a worthy finish inside the hollowed block .
Jose Modesto states 'All Jims P.M.s had 1/4 inch down elevator to get equal turns ' ,
Therefore I set my tailplane / elevator at I think 3/32 incidence , or maybe 1/8 , across the full chord combined ( 1/16 near on tailplane alone .)
With the top block off , the tailplane would remove dead easy & give full access to THINGS back there .
Two Sticks taped / rubber banded near the root with equal L E packers so theyre parrallel , a few feet long , give a more exact appraisal of
the fitted angle . Thrown on the bench with a few match boxes under the wing tips and bean cans at the tailplane tips
is a highly professional way to ensure that the wings are flat while you jimmy the hinge lines dead parralel , equidistant each side .
A few more cans to weight it on top , overnight , and you cant loose .I slide a packer under the rear fuse so it cant drop and spoil things .