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Stephan:

--- Quote from: "Fred" ---So Stephan, what are the results ?
All ok now ?  :?:
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 :D yes, my water procedure was seccessful. After being completely wet, I put the fusselage into a kind of straightening rack and after drying it was ok. Pictures will follow this evening.
Cheers
Stephan

Stephan:
So, as promissed some update about the building. As already mentioned the fuselage is after the straightening realy good and I could continue without any worry.
The next step was to glue the firewall with the right set-up (side thrust and the other thing where I don not know the right word  :!: ) which was quit tricky. After drying I cutted the upper front fuselage sheeting and glued it too.

Than, I cutted four square borders 10mmx10mm and glued it in the gaps between firewall and sheeting

... and after sanding it looks already realy nice

The fin set-up was the next delicate step. I throroughly ajusted and fixed it with some clamps.

With some ca-glue it was pre-glued and with thickened epoxy finaly fixed.
However I haven't realy trusted this set-up therefore an additional former was put in the front of the fin to get another fixpoint. I think now its ok.

After putting the rear sheeting on it looks alredy as a real fuselage and I can now attack the wings.

Cheers
Stephan

Alan_Perse:
Look nice Stephan  :D . Keep up the good work.

Stephan:

--- Quote from: "Alan_Perse" ---Look nice Stephan  :D . Keep up the good work.
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Thanks Alan, hope I can keep up even if the design of the wings shows some features I do not realy like, but lets start from the beginning.
Even when there are not a lot of ribs and you should move fast I struggled at little bit at the begining. I do not like mounting the ribs only being fixed at the longeron and than fixing the leading edge and the trailing edge. I like to have two fixing points from the beginning on. Therefore I decided to work with an auxiliar LE of 3mm as we call it in Germany. When finished I will glue a second one of 3mm against the first.

Second, the ribs are glued just against the LE and TE without any recesses in the LE/TE I changed this at lest for the LE, as you can learn from the following picture ( I am missing some words in my vocabulary to realy tell you what I mean  :( )

After that changes I felt much more confortable with the construction. The ribs are quickly glued. Because I want to have to wing halfs, I also had to made two root ribs. They were designed with "profili2". The print-out I putted on 2mm playwood, cutted it and sanded it.
Thats now the current status. Before fixing the plugin mounts I have now to  prepare the second wing in order to properly adjust the dihedral.

Cheers
Stephan

Alan_Perse:

--- Quote from: "Stephan" ---( I am missing some words in my vocabulary to realy tell you what I mean  :( )Stephan
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A Picture is worth a thousand words  :D  :D  :D  :wink:

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