Larry asks- >how do you locate the openings after the BID is placed over the wood >to lock it to the aileron/wing?
I've seen several ways. One simple way is to use pieces of wooden match sticks pushed through the BID layup into the wax that you've filled the nutplate with. Both the match stick and the wax come right out with a drill bit after cure. And for whoever asked about material for aileron hinges, it's aluminum. The raging debate (see archives) is whether extruded hinges must be used or if rolled hinges are OK. Mark Langford did some pull tests on this (see his website, I believe under his miscellaneous good info page) and either one should be fine. But no one that I know of is using brass hinges for this duty. Oscar Zuniga San Antonio, TX mailto: [email protected] website at http://www.flysquirrel.net _________________________________________________________________ Learn how to choose, serve, and enjoy wine at Wine @ MSN. http://wine.msn.com/
