Dirt Doctor;2422 wrote: I would not use CA on the phenolic tube - use either 30 min or longer epoxy! There is a lot of vibration and shaking going on at the tail end. Besides the thick epoxy makes sure the little spaces between the phenolic and wood are filled!!
sorry Bobby, think i confused you too. i was not planning on using CA to glue the phenolic in!! well, i spoke to Tony and my friend Stacey came over, and we did indeed glue in the phenolics into the fuselage, and it came out perfect.!!!
this is what we did.
1st glued in the wing phenolic into the fuselage. cut off the excess. to get the glue there, we used the epoxy brushes. BTW, i used 30 minute Z-poxy mixed with great planes fiberglass powder.
then we placed the stab phenolic into its hole, and then we did multiple measurements. we want the tubes to be parallel in two planes.
the first plane is if you stand from behind and look at both tubes. the second plane would be if you look down at airplane from the ceiling, the two tubes need to be parallel.
so what we did:
we placed the wing tube into the phenolics, and measured from fuselage side to end of wing tube, on both sides, til they were equidistant. once this was done, we taped the tube to the fuselage side, so it can no longer slide in or out.
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