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alibodin

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« Reply #15 on: May 24, 2015, 20:32:49 PM »
My Quark Mini Wings are looking good.

How does one cut the ailerons off from the wing. Carefully is my first thought :) Saw or knife or anything else?

Suggestions most welcome.

Thank you.

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« Reply #16 on: May 24, 2015, 23:53:34 PM »
Hi Al,
      I put a few pieces of double sided tape on the spars, stuck a steel ruler on them and cut through the spars separately top and bottom with a knife. I then used a junior hacksaw blade to cut the ply ribs alligning the previous cuts and a knife for the balsa ones.
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« Reply #17 on: May 25, 2015, 10:57:59 AM »
John,

Thank for that makes sense, I knew it involved a long straight rule, the double side tape is what I was missing.

Managed to do it, took a while but slow and steady and it is done.

Now all ready for covering the model!

Ironing :)

Alistair
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« Reply #18 on: June 01, 2015, 09:13:02 AM »


It was raining yesterday  :mrgreen:

More at some stage, but very pleased with the result.
And only 3 hrs of work start to finish.

Today, the wings and servos... Hope it rains!  :P
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« Reply #19 on: June 01, 2015, 18:29:20 PM »
Fred, I’ve come to the conclusion that you are obsessed with time. :shock:  I imagine your house must be full of clocks. (In between the model gliders)

Whenever you post message about building something, you always mention how long it took you to do it. :P  

The new Micro is coming along nicely! :D
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« Reply #20 on: June 01, 2015, 18:34:58 PM »
je veux la bulle avec :wink:  :mrgreen:  :mrgreen:  :mrgreen:
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« Reply #21 on: June 01, 2015, 22:11:29 PM »
Well my Micro Quark is nearly done, just got to add the nose and maybe a little lead, cover the nose, then she is ready for the maiden. Just copied the setting for my Quark 2M and made a few tweaks and radio is setup.



Enjoyed the build.

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« Reply #22 on: June 02, 2015, 10:58:30 AM »
Looking good Alistair!  :clap:  :clap:
And thanks for the comments on the build  :D

@Keith, this is an oldish habit. That started a while back, when I heard people talking about building gliders at a meeting. They were talking thousands of hours build time for a 1/4 scale glider...So, at the time, I was building my Grunau Baby, and took the actual build time as I was going along... Took me about 70 hours if I remember. Even if you double that time, we are far from the thousand of hours build I hear there and there.

Anyway, my point is, lots of people do not build anything, because the time it need is one of the main excuse.. By the time they finish to watch crap on TV, they would have a Micro Lunak Fuselage build and covered.
This is also a question I keep being asked for the kits.
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« Reply #23 on: June 02, 2015, 13:46:50 PM »
Oh now I see!

So your advertising slogan is,

“Don’t be bored watching television, Build one of Fred’s model gliders and time will fly by!”

Good call. :lol:
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« Reply #24 on: June 02, 2015, 13:51:16 PM »
:lol:  :lol:  I should put that one on a big banner!  :clap:

No but seriously, if all the people who say they don't have time stopped watching sh*te on TV, a bit more stuff would be done! (I'm getting old, I almost feel like a Keith  :P )
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« Reply #25 on: June 02, 2015, 13:51:58 PM »
Oh, by the way :

 :mrgreen:  \:D/

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« Reply #26 on: June 02, 2015, 14:25:59 PM »
Lol c est presque une construction papal vu le nombre de photos :mrgreen:  :mrgreen:
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« Reply #27 on: June 02, 2015, 14:33:24 PM »
:P I have about 50 photos [-X  
Making up a page    :-({|=
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« Reply #28 on: June 02, 2015, 14:51:32 PM »
Lol
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« Reply #29 on: June 02, 2015, 16:23:16 PM »
Quote from: "Fred"
(I'm getting old, I almost feel like a Keith  :P )


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