The 'What did you do in your workshop tonight?' thread

[Snoopy1]

Did a little sanding and fitting of all joins everything is done and the joints are nice and tight.

 

[BalsaDust]

Just need to install pushrods, servos, and a RX and the little girls first build will be ready for a maiden. Covering scheme was 100% her idea.

 

[Snoopy1]

Ok it is all pressed together square and straight add a prop of epoxy to all the joins. Will let it set for 12 hours and see what I have when all the weights and clamps have been remove.

 

[Snoopy1]

Another day of rain so did a little building. The wing is seated and the 2 front wing pins drilled and epoxied in. It is getting build as the weather allows.

 

[dhal22]

Played around with my lathe today but didn’t take photos.

 

[Snoopy1]

The weather still sucks cold , raining and extremely windy so guess what back in the shop building. Finished up the front plate for the motor and build the stabilizer and shaped it. Now I can fit the stabilizer into the fuselage and check how the wing and stabilizer line up.

 

[Snoopy1]

Also prepared the wing for wing bolts so that it can be fitted to the fuselage. I learned this from a fellow flyer, he has been racing planes for many years and explained this procedure to me he explained that he has been doing this for a while and has not failed him. This is a foam wing covered with 1/16 balsa and 2 layers of 2oz cloth on the inside of the 1/16 balsa top and bottom. You drill 3/4 diameter hole for 1/4 bolt. Then you mix up epoxy with chopped glass and thickener until it is like ketchup. Then fill the holes properly and let harden, then sand smooth with the wing and then drill the epoxy for wing bolts. They do it like this for strength and nothing sticks above the wing and everything is flush with the top of the wing.

 

[AKNick]

Looks like Jase is moving around again!

 

[pawnshopmike]

Looks like Jase is moving around again!

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Wow.

 

[Snoopy1]

We’ll I am back in the workshop, it is really cold and raining again it is just above freezing.
Anyway build the stabilizer and separated the elevators. Prepared the fuselage and got the stabilizer square and straight with the wing. Now it is just a matter of time for the epoxy to cure. Then on to the rudder getting it built and installed.