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Building Tips and technical articles. => Building techniques => Topic started by: fred cesquim on July 26, 2016, 08:47:09 AM
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i teamed up with my good friend and project ace Luis Struffaldi and we came up with this Jig
designed for general building of wings and fuselage, works for C/L and R/C as well!
we have laser cut from MDF (fiber board) 1/4. the base is cut in 3 parts, you have to glue them for shipping purposes
dimensions are 27" x 72" long. you can built pratically any C/L model wing easily, as well as fuselage.
same applies to R/C , and if the builder follows our instructions, even bigger planes are ok
Model shown is a 25 sized stunt
the sliders can be adjusted for almost any LE and TE shapes
notches are for rubber bands to hold sticks tight
once you finished one side of the wing, you can flip it over and sheet the other side without distorting anything
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Fred, will you guys be selling these? And will it bring me closer to your level of building? ? :o
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well thought out jig.
~running from warped wings since 1949
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Fred, will you guys be selling these? And will it bring me closer to your level of building? ? :o
thanks for the comments!
we are thinking what to do, since is prohibitive to mail them from Brazil
maybe some USA or UK company can buy the project and cut locally....still working on that
about the building level, well, at least the plane can be precisely "levelled" with the Jig!thanks!
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Pat Johnson?
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I have developed bad eyes and shaky hands
I would invest a modest fair sum of $$ for this well done jig if it was for sale
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Fred,
Excellent engineering and construction as usual. I wouldn't expect anything less from your office. H^^
I hate building wings, if I had a few extra bucks, your wing jig could cure me of that.
See how things go.
Again, congratulations on your efforts and fine results.
Charles
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How about selling the files individually so we could get them cut locally? H^^
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I don't know about getting to Fred's level, because I have never seen anything like one of his planes (they are unbelievable!), but a jig - any jig for that matter - will definitely improve your game. I can attest to that personally.
I gave our first prototype to a very good friend of mine that had never built a larger (bigger than 25 size) plane and we set out to assemble a couple of PROMO 40 (something like a Twister).
We took maybe half an hour to 45 minutes to put the jig together, check dimensions and alignments. After that, it was a quick job to position the parts and glue everything. Best of all, just popped the wing out and started positioning the parts for the second one. In less than 3 hours we had 2 wings ready and, best of all, they were STRAIGHT!
Check the photos!
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Fred,
Excellent engineering and construction as usual. I wouldn't expect anything less from your office. H^^
I hate building wings, if I had a few extra bucks, your wing jig could cure me of that.
See how things go.
Again, congratulations on your efforts and fine results.
Charles
thanks a lot Chareles, you´re very kind as always!
i have to share this with Luis, he´s amazing on developing solutions !
i love building wings, and hate fuselages! we can work something out lol
thanks man!
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I don't know about getting to Fred's level, because I have never seen anything like one of his planes (they are unbelievable!), but a jig - any jig for that matter - will definitely improve your game. I can attest to that personally.
I gave our first prototype to a very good friend of mine that had never built a larger (bigger than 25 size) plane and we set out to assemble a couple of PROMO 40 (something like a Twister).
We took maybe half an hour to 45 minutes to put the jig together, check dimensions and alignments. After that, it was a quick job to position the parts and glue everything. Best of all, just popped the wing out and started positioning the parts for the second one. In less than 3 hours we had 2 wings ready and, best of all, they were STRAIGHT!
Check the photos!
Luis, you´re a gentlemen! thanks for the words
he´s great on the projects, i can assure you all!
and yes, the Jig makes building wings almost fool proof
you really need to be sloppy or drunk to warp a wing or fuse with it