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| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Cabinaire | Parked | 04-Jul-17 13:38 |  | | Views : 693 | | 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 : 688 | | 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 : 694 | | 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 : 770 | | 22" Sig Customaire bipe - Stabilizer is now all glued up in with the parts in position, waiting to dry overnight. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Cabinaire | Parked | 02-Jul-17 23:14 |  | | Views : 694 | | 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 : 696 | | 20" Sig Customaire - stab parts are removed and spread out white glued on all mating surfaces and left to dry. |
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| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Cabinaire | Parked | 02-Jul-17 08:38 |  | | Views : 623 | | 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 : 651 | | 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 : 700 | | Oh well, so much for chivalry ... |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Cabinaire | Parked | 29-Jun-17 18:06 |  | | Views : 733 | | 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 |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Cabinaire | Parked | 28-Jun-17 16:30 |  | | Views : 716 | | 22" Sig "Customaire" - Today's progress on the fin/rudder - all fitted and blocked up, ready for "double white gluing", as per Don Ross' treatise book "Rubber Powered Model Airplanes"(1988). First glue up all surfaces 65:35 glue:water mixture, let dry, then 90:10 glue:water for final attachment. I am pondering if I even need little gussets all over the model or not ... |
| LASTWOODSMAN | SIG Cabinaire | Parked | 28-Jun-17 16:27 |  | | Views : 769 | | 22" Sig "Customaire" - Spent the day so far, photocopying sections of the plan, and light sanding (220 grit) all of the fuzz off of all of the sides of the "saw cut" stringers - 3/32" sq, 1/16"sq, 3/16" X 3/32", and 1/16" X 1/8" stripwood. After blowing off all of the sanding dust, I dragged each piece through my black cloth T-shirt, and I was amazed at how much sanding sawdust was still actually left on the wood. These laser-cut parts in this kit, don't seem to be as "laser-burned" that very dark brown color on the edges, as on other kits. I have heard that the way to get around that (from Dave Paul Cowell, I think), is to laser cut over glass. Anybody hear that before? I'm ready to start gluing now that all of my balsa is squeaky clean ... |
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