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cvanscho:
This thead makes me want to get covered in balsa shavings again :D .

Chris

Stephan:

--- Quote from: "cvanscho" ---This thead makes me want to get covered in balsa shavings again :D .
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Hi Chris, just do it, its great fun  :D

So, some news about the construction. Both wings are finished in its basic structur, thus I could start to take care about the plug-in mount. The main plug in mount will be realized by a 6mm copper tube with a 4mm piano wire inside, and will go from the root rib through rib 20. Therefore, Rib 20 and 21 will be strengthen by a 1mm playwood rib glued on the balsa rib.

This work is indeed easier to do it before having glued the balsa ribs already, well I have just not made up my minde correctly before starting the construction :!: .
As soon as the ribs were glued I put first the front tube in the right position, the right dehidral is got by just putting under 15mm balsa at the end of both wings. Then I pre-fixed the tubes with some fast epoxy. The next step was  to adjust the auxiliar plug-in at the rear of the wings, which is indeed much smaler, only over the first two ribs and a 4mm copper tube with a 3mm piano wire inside. Also this one is pre-fixed with fast epoxy to get it in the right position.

Now, everything can be finaly glued overnight with slow epoxy. So, if you have now a closed look on it, there is still one mistake, yes, the bias of the root ribs is to big :cry: thus I have to put some balsa on and sand it into the right angle, a kind of a botch job :roll:
Cheers
Stephan

Stephan:
Often this are the little things which takes most of the time, but I am moving on. The support of the servos is build in...

... and at the moment the sheeting is drying. Tomorrow I will show a first picture fuselage/wings  :D
cheers
Stephan

Stephan:
So, as announced today I put togehter the parts, made the changes with the root ribs that both wings fit better together, glued the winglets, decided to add to each side of the ribs a triangle and drilled the holes for the screws to fix the wing and that's that baby right now.

The weight so far is 280g, have to add the radio and the batterie which is about 220g and the covering, so I should end up somewhere between 550 and 600g, :oops: oupps I forgot the engine which makes another 50g  but it should be still ok  :D , I am not far away from anybody else who build this glider and that with all the changes I made to get a stronger fuselage and wings.
Cheers
Stephan

Fred:
:shock:  Looking really good Stephan !  :clap:

I can't remember if you've told us... You are going to put an BL Inrunner +lipos ?
Can certainly do a nice glider too  :?:  To stay pure...  :wink:  :)  :P

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