Find a flat board about 4 ft wide, glue on some 60 grit I think it was
that I used, may have been finer, aluminium oxide paper, glue a vertical
piece on the opposite side to keep your board flat and true, let dry and
sand the whole width of the fuse, from front to back, one section at a time,
should take no more than three hours to do the whole fuse, that includes
coffee brakes. Highly rcommended to wear a mask, lots of spruce dust which
really dries the lungs and nose out. A rounded edge on the front and back
sides of the board stops any embarrasing catches on the edge of cross
members and allows your board to slide easily over buildups of glue and any
slightly misaligned cross members.
When it comes to gluing on the ply, the best thing I found was to
position the sheet with two staples, and weigh down the sheet with house
bricks, position the bricks so that when you get a nice even bead of glue
squishing out along the join/seam, then the brick is in the right place with
the right amount of pressure, my staples were probably too small to do a
good job, but the bricks work pretty good, good staples would probably work
even better. After the glue starts to go tacky, stick on some rubber gloves
and run your finger around the seam to give the glue a nice rounded fillet.
The trick to a good glue job seems to be to have a perfectly flat and flush
surface to glue your ply too.
Chris Johnston
North Richmond
NSW Australia
----- Original Message -----
From: "VIRGIL N SALISBURY" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 11:45 AM
Subject: Re: KR> SANDING SANDING SANDING
> If the sides were tapered in at the bottom, there is so much
> more sanding to get the bottom longerons flat across the bottom
> ( crosswise ) that you need to do. Go figure, Virg
>
> On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 20:40:56 -0400 James Ferris <[email protected]> writes:
>> How do you figure that? If the sides vertical that meansthat the
>> bottom
>> is wider and therefore more area to sand.
>> Jim
>> On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 16:36:25 -0400 VIRGIL N SALISBURY
>> <[email protected]>
>> writes:
>> > If the sides were vertical, sanding would much less, Virg
>> >
>> > On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:13:19 -0400 "[email protected]"
>> > <[email protected]> writes:
>> > > I thought that it would only take a few hours of sanding the
>> > > fuselage bottom to fit the skin but it looks like it may take a
>>
>> > > week. My god that is a lot of sanding! Maybe I am just being to
>>
>> > much
>> > > of a perfectionist , my wife says I am anal but I just want to
>> > build
>> > > the best plane I can.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > John Godwin
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