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| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Customaire # FF-26 | Parked | 07-Jul-17 09:51 |  | | Views : 274 | | George "Bud" Gere Jr. (designer of the Gere Sport plane) died when he slipped while trying to dislodge a frozen sled runner while testing out a newly built iceboat on White Bear Lake on Jan 18, 1931, and fell into the spinning propeller and died of his injuries. He was only 19 years old. A trajic loss of such a brilliant young mind. Makes you wonder ... |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Customaire # FF-26 | Parked | 06-Jul-17 15:26 |  | | Views : 383 | | 20" Sig 'Customaire biplane - The second W6 rib on each wing is now added with a 1/32" spacer between the ribs, where the strut tips will locate in the space between the doubled up W6 ribs. The strut tips can be moved forward or backward in the slot, or "sprung a little", in the slot left when I remove the 1/32" spacer. There are also added one 1/16" square balsa strip of wood on top of the solid wing tip pieces, to sand down and shape after assembly, for a smooth tissue application. Two little gussets were also added at the skinny thin 3/32" wing tip root - OOOOPS - I used 1/16" sq - must cut it out now! Smiley and put in the right size ... |
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| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Customaire # FF-26 | Parked | 06-Jul-17 15:21 |  | | Views : 288 | | 20" Sig 'Customaire" biplane - All of the parts are now glued up with a 90:10 glue:water mixture, for the second part of double gluing. Everything is braced flat to the table and all of the ribs have little planks pinned on the tops of them to hold the rib bottoms flat to the table. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Customaire # FF-26 | Parked | 06-Jul-17 15:18 |  | | Views : 282 | | Sig 20" 'Customaire' Biplane - The hard part is done - all mating surfaces fit evenly flush and slightly snug. I then removed all of the parts with tweezers, except for the leading and trailing edges, and glued all of the mating surfaces with about 65:35 white glue:water mixture, and set them on wax paper, on top of photocopies, of lower left and lower right wing, and let them dry. The mating surfaces of the leading edge and trailing edge were also glued to let dry, as the first step of "double gluing". |
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