Thanks Jim,
How heavy are your Teosawki's, usually?
I'll have to ask about international postage on a few sets of cores from Phil Cartier.
If I was going to do a series run of Teosawki's, I would add a fixture to the jig that securely holds the fuselage nose in position accurately. Another tip, packing tape on the jig works well to keep the glue off.
Steve
Good morning Steve! Well, while I thought about a jig, for some reason, my mind just didn't come up with something a neat as yours.
All of my builds are a combination of slow patient measuring, re-measuring, cutting/sanding, fitting and sanding before gluing. Regarding your request, here's an extract from my Flight Log regarding my two active Teo's. You will note, both are currently powered with .40 engines rather than the originally mounted OS 40 FS Surpass engines and the weights were taken after their first flights:
Plane Engine First Flight Weight Last Flight Total Flights Notes
TEOSAWKI (GREEN) OS 40 FS SURPASS 20-Oct-18 2#-10.7oz 5-Feb-22 138 Engine Swap Tower Hobby 40
TEOSAWKI (SUPER BOWL 55) OS 40 FS SURPASS 31-May-19 2#-15.8oz 8-Jan-22 23 Engine Swap OS 40
Actually both planes handled well with the 40FS engines, nice, good pull, using 3-bladed props, adjusted for lap times in the 5:00 - 5:30 second time range but I wasn't pleased with the feel of vibration (possibly propeller imbalance on my part) through the lines. It wasn't bad, I just didn't care for it, thus the swap to 2 strokes.
The most recent plane is fully assembled but still "in the bones" and hasn't been outfitted with covering engine and tank but it comes in at: 1#-12.6oz.
Jim