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LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 3900207 Jul 17 09:51

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, Image # 3900006 Jul 17 15:26

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 ...
LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 3899906 Jul 17 15:21

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, Image # 3899806 Jul 17 15:18

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".
LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 3890322 Jun 17 05:08

Sig Customaire - The parts are all cut out and sanded and ID'd with small strips of green masking tape
LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 3890222 Jun 17 05:07

Sig "Customaire" (not Cabinaire) - Photocopied the balsa parts sheets and ID'd the parts numbers
LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 3888919 Jun 17 22:10

These are the results of the GLUING EXPERIMENT. Medium Gap-Filling CA super glue (10 second), works on both plastic to plastic, and balsa to plastic. 5 minute Epoxy glue only works on balsa to plastic, and not on plastic to plastic.
LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 3888819 Jun 17 22:06

GLUEING EXPERIMENT : The instructions said to try your glue, (I don't have the "Sigment" glue), on test scraps first, as some glues "adhere" and some glues do not "adhere" at all, while others soften the plastic excessively, and suggested to wait overnight. I used 5 types of glues on strips of plastic to plastic, and balsa to plastic, clamped up with clothes pins, and I waited 30 hours before checking the results.
LASTWOODSMAN, Comment for image # 3888719 Jun 17 04:02
This kit has a very clever, ingenious wheel and wheel pants design using the eyelets for bearings on the inner and outer edge of the wheels. On the inner side of all of the wheel halves and wheel pant halves, a round balsa support disc, that has a hole in the middle for the landing gear wire, is glued for strengthening. Plus a 17 1/2" X 2" clear plastic acetate sheet 0.0075" thick, for the windows and cabin roof.
LASTWOODSMAN, Comment for image # 3888719 Jun 17 04:01
These plastic parts all appear to be of very high quality, with no flaws, blemishes, deformations, or imperfections. Also 1/8" rubber, 1/32" Landing Gear wire you have to bend, a prop hook 0.047" ( 3/64") diam wire, 7" red high-Torque rectangular-bladed Prop, white tissue. In that little plastic bag are four eyelets to cement into the four wheel halves, and two eyelets for the front and back of the nose block, to act as the prop wire hook shaft bearings. There is also a white bead and two small flat washers to go between the nose plug and the prop hub of the prop, and a 1" hardwood dowel rear rubber motor mount 3/32" diam that I will replace with a 3/32" aluminum tube to fit my winding stooge wire.
LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 3888719 Jun 17 03:59

SIG CUSTOMAIRE (not Cabinaire) KIT CONTENTS - the kit comes with 2 sheets of 1/16" X 3" X 12" laser cut parts with small bridges that are easy to cut and sand off, and one sheet of 1/16" X 3 1/4" X 9" die stamped (crushed) parts - I would rather have had it just as printwood, instead of die cut, and cut out all of the parts myself - I had to cut out a couple of the solid wingtip parts out of fresh balsa. The parts labeling diagrams were poor, as not all of the parts were even labeled (but it wasn't too hard to figure it out, when comparing the part over the plan). There is also a plastic sheet of 0.008" thick, thin flyweight shinny white vac-formed parts - wheel halves, wheel pant halves, that are all marked as inner and outer, and that all of the outer shells slip over the inner shells, butting up against a definite "step" for perfect fit, and a one piece Cowling with attached Dummy Motor.
John M Oshust, Comment for image # 3888418 Jun 17 16:32
Your description of the plans is very concise and on point. Nice job!
LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 3888418 Jun 17 09:43

Sig CUSTOMAIRE (not Cabinaire) plans. The plan is one sheet which has very handy isometric views of three important assemblies - forward fuse assy, center wing attachment assy, and tail wheel and tail section assy. The plan lines are thick and easy to read, and the thick big block Roman Gothic capital lettering on the plan is also very, very easy to read (for my old eyes). The solid balsa parts are also grain line directionally streaked and dotted (shading), all over the plan, which is very discernable and adds that touch of realism which truly makes for a great plan - designed by Paul McIlrath and traced by Claude McCullogh - very well done !
LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 3888318 Jun 17 05:45

There are not a lot of pics of this model on the web (it was not an actual plane ...), so I will just go with these three Sig pictures. James would you please put this Sig "Customaire" Kit ff-26 onto the availabel aircraft list? Thank you.
LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 3888218 Jun 17 05:41

This model has been sitting on the shelf for a couple of years. I was intimidated by it - Sig said it is their most challenging F/F kit - very light flyweight vac formed plastic wheels and plastic pants, and a complex nose assembly with a plastic cowling with a plastic dummy motor attached -intended for the "experienced modeller" - well, ... here goes !
LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 3888118 Jun 17 05:39

This is not the Sig "Cabinaire" - This is the Sig "Customaire" 20" biplane kit # FF-26 $24.50 (no exact scale as it was not a real plane) - but reminiscent of the classic WACO cabin biplanes of the 1930's. This will be my first attempt at building a biplane for free flight rubber power.
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