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General control line discussion => Open Forum => Topic started by: Paul Taylor on November 02, 2011, 04:32:08 PM
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anyone have one in a PDF or word doc they can send me?
I did not get a clean hole when I cut the wing out of my busted fuse.
Thanks!
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I threw mine out -- dangit. (But my bench is cleaner). You're planning a much milder version of what I describe in this thread: http://stunthanger.com/smf/index.php?topic=22001.0 (http://stunthanger.com/smf/index.php?topic=22001.0) (and which is still ongoing).
Here's what to do:
First, clean all the pieces of old fuselage from the wing.
Take a big old box, and cut a couple of chunks of cardboard about 6 inches by 16 inches. Hold one on the top of the wing, and draw a line that's as constant a distance vertically from the wing top surface as you can manage (a compass helps a lot here), and that's about two inches up from the edge. Cut the cardboard along the line, then fiddle and fit the thing until it lies nicely on the wing. You want to have a template that matches the wing top surface with "ears" that hang down a good inch or two below the leading and trailing edges.
Use that piece of cardboard to cut a similar hole in the other piece. Fit it up to the wing bottom surface and correct any cutting boo-boos, or mismatches between top and bottom.
Now sandwich the wing with the two pieces, make sure everything fits. Once you're happy, sandwich the wing again, only glue the pieces together (I recommend either hot glue 'cause it's fast, or white glue 'cause you can fiddle with it a bit after you get it clamped up). In either case, make sure that the template that you're making is square to the wing both fore and aft and up and down.
Let the glue dry, slide the wing out, voila! You have a template. Now you can carefully transfer the measured hole in your template to your fuse, whack it out, and find out that you either need to sand the hole out to fit the wing, or you've screwed up and made it too damn big, or maybe both. But that's model building (make sure to intentionally cut it undersized, and plan on spending an evening or two making it all fit).
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Is/was this the real Flight Streak or the ARF?? VD~
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It was an ARF.
Thanks everyone, Andrew came thru last night and I have a print out of the center rib. He also told me that my Bi-Slob is very very very close to the same airfoil.
So now to pull out my SkyRay plans and cut a fuse.
SkyStreak it is.
This place is great!!!