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| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Cabinaire | Parked | 08-Jul-17 22:29 |  | | Views : 279 | | My try at full moon night flight photography - looks like UFOs ... |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Cabinaire | Parked | 08-Jul-17 18:58 |  | | Views : 286 | | I just tried using bigger rubber and I reduced the number of rubber strands, on my 22" Cabinaire, with great results. Instead of 4 strands of 1/8" rubber, each strand 13" long (the prop hook to rear motor peg length on the plan was 13"), which gave consistent 25 second flights, I then instead went to 2 strands of 3/16" rubber, each strand 15" long. I could really stretch the rubber very far out from the nose, using a winding stooge, and wound in 55 winds on my 15:1 winder which equals 825 turns on the rubber motor, and got my record, much slower, beautiful turning flight of 48 seconds!! Tthen I got greedy and wound 70 turns on the winder for 1050 turns, and when I put the nose plug on - the Rubber Motor BLEW UP !!! Tissue damage all over the rear end, and a big chunk (sitting on my glasses case), of the foreward fuse former, busted out, along with the bottom fuse forward nose stringers busted !! |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Cabinaire | Parked | 04-Jul-17 13:38 |  | | Views : 281 | | 20 " Customaire bipe - The parts are now completely blocked up and fitted to each other. The two die crushed ribs were bigger than the laser cut ribs, and had to be sanded to the shape of the laser cut ribs - by sandwiching the two die crushed ribs between the two laser cut ribs, and sanding them equal to the laser cut ribs. Two W6 ribs are left over, and will be added after all else is glued up and dry. The twin W6 ribs in each wing have a 1/32" space between them for the wing strut attachment. I will fit a 1/32" spacer of balsa between them and then glue the rib twins. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Cabinaire | Parked | 04-Jul-17 13:34 |  | | Views : 261 | | 20" Customaire biplane build - the parts for the two lower "sesqui" wings are ready to be test fitted and held in place flush and snug (but not too tight) for slip fit, with 'parts-locating', balsa bracing planks, that are pinned to the building board. They will then be removed for "double gluing". |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Cabinaire | Parked | 04-Jul-17 13:19 |  | | Views : 247 | | 20" Sig "Customaire" bipe - The completed Stab and Fin/Rudder have been finished and sanded to 320 grit. They together weigh less than one gram. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Cabinaire | Parked | 03-Jul-17 19:00 |  | | Views : 317 | | 22" Sig Customaire bipe - Stabilizer is now all glued up in with the parts in position, waiting to dry overnight. |
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| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Cabinaire | Parked | 02-Jul-17 23:14 |  | | Views : 251 | | NO WARNING !! If you use Photobucket, and suddenly lost your pictures/images, this is what they did to you ... "As of June 30, 2017, Photobucket requires a $99 annual subscription to allow external linking to hosted images and a $399 annual subscription to allow the embedding of images on third-party websites, such as personal blogs and forums. This policy change, enacted with no advance warning, has been highly controversial.[6] |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Cabinaire | Parked | 02-Jul-17 08:41 |  | | Views : 239 | | 20" Sig Customaire - stab parts are removed and spread out white glued on all mating surfaces and left to dry. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Cabinaire | Parked | 02-Jul-17 08:38 |  | | Views : 224 | | The actual Stabilizer parts are then removed from the locating blocking up frames. Call me crazy, but there is a soothing, pretty, colored symmetry to all of the round head pins sticking up. Then each individual stab part is now glue-brushed separately on all of their mating surfaces with a white glue:water mixture ratio of about 65 glue and 35 water ratio (65:35), and then left to dry before the second part of double gluing with immediate final assembly I may seem like a lot of extra work, but I like to have fun fiddling around during the build - I build slow - so hopefully when I glue it all together - and the parts do fit right in their place nicely - I will have deep strong bonds. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Cabinaire | Parked | 30-Jun-17 15:20 |  | | Views : 226 | | Sig 20" "Customaire" biplane - Rudder/fin framing is doubled white glued and the stab is all blocked up with small bracing planks pinned in place, ready to glue. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Cabinaire | Parked | 30-Jun-17 15:13 |  | | Views : 246 | | Oh well, so much for chivalry ... |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Cabinaire | Parked | 29-Jun-17 18:06 |  | | Views : 288 | | Some progress on the Customaire. The fin/rudder is all "double-glued up" with white glue as per Don Ross' Treatise book "Rubber Powered Model Airplanes", which I had signed out from the Library, read it, highlighted it , made pencil notes all over it, then ordered a new book, and went back to the Library to give them the new book, got heck from the Librarian, but she eventually let me exchange it, but charged me $2.60 for having to switch over the cover and bar codes info ... I am going all out and double gluing and bracing up everything with small 1/16" balsa planks |
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