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1. If you have ANY questions concerning this plane, please see the Message Board as you will most likely either find an answer there, or you can post a question and usually get it answered quickly. 2. If you plan on seriously deviating from the plans presented here...then Do NOT install the wing hold down dowels until your plane is nearly finished. Once your plane is basically flight ready, tape or somehow strap your wing to the fuselage at the recommended position and try to get it to balance without adding ANY weight. REMEMBER: if it is tail heavy, move the wing BACK towards the tail feathers slightly and check the Center of Gravity (CG) again...if it is nose heavy, move the wing FORWARD towards the nose slightly and check the CG again by holding the plane by its wingtips right at the spar. The most weight we had to add to the prototype was 3 ounces of lead fishing sinker in the nose cone. If you follow the plans to the letter, then go ahead and drill and install the wing hold down dowels as shown in the Fuse step because you'll be close enough in weight so that you won't have to move the wing around. 3. When using Hot Glue, use the HOT setting on your glue gun. Make sure you have something like a 4 x 4 piece of wood or other long, heavy object to push down on the areas to be glued so that you get the glue spread out thinly. In the case of hot glue, thin beads spread evenly are much better than thick beads spread haphazardly. The goal is to get the hot glue to smear thinly to both surfaces. In some cases, you may wish to use a heavy staple gun to staple the trailing edges of the wings. Also, you may wish to not use hot glue at all and use something like CA glue, Household Goop, or Liquid Nails. 4. When bonding pieces of PVC to each other (the Hatch, and the Nose Cone Stop), use the liquid irrigation glue (I think it's acetone based) to weld PVC pieces (just like you do when you put together irrigation pipe and couplers, etc.) |
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10.09.2006 The site that started it all: Spadtothebone.com
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