3D 75cc 106" HyperLITE Slick 540 by Fibertech N More

[Dooinit]

Last time on build I mentioned spline sanding. For me I just ran the fuse side through my drum sander. But for you that don’t have one of these you can set up a long flat board with sand paper glued to it and run the fuse side back and forth as I show in 42% build pic. If your careful and apply even pressure you can use a flat short board or aluminum plate with sand paper glued to it. Start at one end of fuse and in one pass slide sanding board to the other end with even pressure.

Next was gluing on the anti rotational ply plates and the stab tube ply to fuse sides.

After this it was time to set the motor box and fuse side up in the fixture and start on the cross and diagonal braising. First though I wanted to set the wing tube fuse plates in place. At this time I’m not gluing in the wing tube socket yet. I’m just using it for location of the tube plates. I’ll install that a little later. There is a little sanding on 3/8” balsa that needed to be done first to slide the tube through motor box.


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Dude, nice! those fuse sides are probably super straight. That's a great idea.

 

[Fibertech]

I have been working on this build but also some other projects last couple days. One of my wife’s Christmas gifts is to get her wood shop done.
So a little behind on post but have a few minutes to show some more progress. I won’t go into a lot of detail as the pics show more. One thing to mention is when preparing the balsa tube ring it needs to have a cut back in it because of the angle of fuse to tube. This is easy to do with cf tube and some sand paper rap part way around. Only removing material from front and back not all the way around or there would be too much slop. I like to slide the phenolic tube in place and then make a pencil mark as the pic shows. Then mark at both sides of fuse around tube for the cut. Then wen gluing in place it’s easy to install the tube back in correct position.
With the fuse still upside down on the build table I add some more of the balsa bracing to the motor box. Then it was time to turn the fuse assembly over and basically do the same format for the top side.
Know starting to look like something.

 

[BalsaDust]

All looks great and that's pretty cool that your wife wants a wood shop.

 

[lowdown]

Want to trade wives?

 

[Fibertech]

Want to trade wives?

Sorry.....

 

[jhelber08]

Want to trade wives?

I was thinking the same....I wish my wife wanted a wood shop.

 

[Dooinit]

I kinda feel bad for some of you folks on here. My wife and I are building a house in the spring and she wants to make sure their is enough room for my new shop and that it will be big enough for me. She's pretty cool

 

[jhelber08]

Don't get me wrong, I seriously wouldn't trade mine for the world. She let me convince her to move to a house with some property and a guest house and a bigger garage so that we could have some more airplane space.

 

[tylerzx9r]

What kind of woodshop? Is it for craft like projects?

 

[Fibertech]

Not much progress on build but the new wood shop is gaining. My wife is happy to see her new work area taking shape. She takes old furniture and old what some would call junk and turns it into amazing pieces of work. She then sells them at local shows in the summer.
I'll be getting some work done on the build later this week.
Also want to say thanks for fallowing and thanks to all that have purchased kits from us this year. In advance HAPPY NEW YEAR!