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Wings - Closing Prep |
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| The 2 3/8" cardboard tube should make a good form. This will go through the rear fuel bays. | Take your kid to work day! | Good help making flange forms. |
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| Rear flanges on. | ||
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| Shaved off the back of the ribs to slope to the spar. This will be filled later from the top. | Experimented with 1/2" pink insulation foam for the flanges, much cheaper to. Also comes with a release film. I cut these with a table saw. The underside film was intact and did not lift at the edges. | Aluminum tape, and CA worked well. The CA accelerator will soften the pink foam so it was used sparingly. |
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| Flanges turn out well. | All trimmed up. | |
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| Tube temporarily in place for fitting. | Working on the left wing. The pink foam works great. | Aft flanges - going quick. |
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| Marked for trimming. | Trimmed and ready to begin fuel, control and electrical systems. | Rear partition for fuel bay. |
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| Aileron bellcranks and brackets made. | Testing out the geometry. | Pass-through for fuel under the spar and between ribs. |
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| Main spar "nut-plate." | Foam cover plate for spar nut-plate. | Glassed. |
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| Extending the fuel pass-through for adding a slosh gate. | A slosh gate will be riveted to this later. | Aileron tube pass-through is enclosed through aft fuel bays. |
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| Inlets, and outlets and drains put in. | Vent tube to the end ribs in. | Fuel Sender location, with bond in nut-plate ring. |
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| Location of fuel sender. | All fuel bays coated with sealer. | Slosh gates installed. |
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| Slosh gate with stop. I will be removing the wings, and flipping them to finish the bottoms, I didn't want the gates to get stuck open. | Another slosh gate. | Simple fuel sender. |
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| Fuel sender, near root rib. | ||