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Fuselage
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I have to store the fuselage
some place while I scarf the plywood. Table space was at a premium.
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The Plywood skins for the
sides are scarfed and glued into 24 x 172" sheets. The bottom skins
are scarfed and glued too. I used a Makita power hand plane to scarf the
plywood. The plywood skins go on with T-88 and a whole lot of staples.
I tried 1/4" long staples and they did not hold after stapling over
the poly twine. I had some 1/2" and they broke the poly twine. So
I had to go get some 3/8" long staples.
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I second the motion to use
only USA made staples. I only had 5 that broke a leg that I could not
remove out of approximately 7,000 staples. A pair of nippers works great
to remove them. I did not get pictures of all the staples but, here is
the fuselage with both sides on. I cut openings for the spars and dry
fitted them. I also stuck the canopy back on to get a feel for what this
bird will look like.
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The horizontal
and vertical stabilizers were placed in
position. The two main outer spars can
be seen on the table too. Guess what I got to do next? Hit the
next button and find out!
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