Sunday, May 18, 2008

Front spar opening

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If you look at the front spar plug you will see that this will not work. There is no room for glue in the joint. I figured this out as I was putting the test rib together. I will later remove some material in the corners so that the rib will not glue itself to the jig.
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Flap & Aileron Spar

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Starting of a Rib Jig

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What is this!

This will be part of the jig. Since the hole is of center it works like a cam lock. I will screw these down close to the center line and then just rotate it until an edge is on the line. You will see.
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Ribs

I had a board made with a center line down the middle for laying out the wing rib jig. At first I thought that the center line dims for the spars were 31" apart. This is not the case on my template. It is more like 30 3/16". The reason why I am doing this jig instead of finishing the fuse side is so I can make sure my spars will be in the right place for there fittings. The fuse side dims do not add up right so I am doing some double checking. Anyway it is something I will not have to do later and I can do this part at my house.
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