Do you have an arrow on both sides of that tape? I guess when you roll it over for the other side the rope will get longer or shorter depending on which way you roll it. Have you glue anything yet? ;-)

Ok now I'm preatty confident I can glue the fuse togeher, did it last night went to bed at one. Loving it.

Posted By Kent Porter on 23 Jul 2010 13:27
Do you have an arrow on both sides of that tape? I guess when you roll it over for the other side the rope will get longer or shorter depending on which way you roll it. Have you glue anything yet? ;-)

Yes the arrow is on both sides of the tape,I could not tell if it got shoter or longer, I glued it together last night.

I have been using merucy ca and the bottles are kind of bulky to get in some areas so I pour some of it on a 1/2oz bottle, much esier to aply, just something to keep in mind.

Posted By Primo Rivera on 23 Jul 2010 14:08


I have been using merucy ca and the bottles are kind of bulky to get in some areas so I pour some of it on a 1/2oz bottle, much esier to aply, just something to keep in mind.

That is what she said.

Primo, what is that on your back wall??
BTW: Nice build. I have a YAK54 sitting om my bench. If I could only get the time to build, let alone fly.


Wayne

Posted By Primo Rivera on 02 Jul 2010 9:04




You can see here where I made a template from a pice of balsa to help me locate the second hard point just below the satb tube, I will also use it to make the stab end cap.

I could not help myself I had to just fit one side of the fuse to the motor box, I call this visual progress. Man I'm having a blast building this thing.

Hi Wayne, I was wondering how long it was going to take before you saw that, My dear wife pick it out thinking it was my plane and she had it made for a Christmas gift, very cool.

You should start you build, even if you only work on it for half an hour, sometimes I come home with no energy after a long day of watching a dyno run and don't feel like working on it but once I start time just flies.

I'll see you at Triple Tree.

Yes, looking forward to TripleTree. Always a good time.
NOT looking forward to getting spanked by you and Kevin :<(

You get to like it after a while Wayne . I know I do !!!!

OK, I'm back at it. The fuse is together I do need to glue in the triangular balsa gussets on the vertical trusses, I'll be using thick mercury ca on this.

My next step will be to start gluing the sheeting together for the fuse foam parts.

keep it going primo!!

tony

Hey Tony did you get your kit yet?

OK The fuse is done for the most part so I call Ty and asked him for some guide dance as to what to do next; my plan was to complete the fuse including top deck and bottom deck except, glad I asked. What I have been working on is getting the sheeting together for the wings and by far that has been the most time consuming. First I made a cardboard template as a guide and found out Denise is very generous on the sheeting I guess to keep newbie’s like myself from making mistakes. It took me 2.5hrs per sheet, thanks God the other pices are smaller. OH I laid down some wax paper to keep the table clean.

I have all four sheets done, my next step is to glue in the wing tube socket in place and mark the location of the servos.

Primo if Tony is waiting on a 124 I can tell you for sure he has not got it yet because I'm still cutting parts for the motorboxes, I should finish those parts today and get them boxed up tomorrow and I'll be meeting Dennis Friday afternoon around 4 to 4:30 pm to hand deliver the motorbox kits to him, he drives my way and I drive his way and we meet in the middle. So without these parts he can not ship kits, That is why we hand deliver the parts because if they are broken in shipping he would have to wait until I remade them and I have serval weeks in these parts.That is why I have not flown since Triple Tree and will not get to fly until this contest Saturday morning.Who needs practic anyway !

OH YEA!!! I forgot about that, must be the drugs I'm taking. LOL

dennis is hoping to ship kits in septmeber.
we'll see how that goes.
but like FWB use to say, "better to wait than make a mistake"!!!!!
i know when dennis gets it right, then he will ship.

tony

I finished the motorboxs last night and I'll box them up tonight and I'll meet Dennis Friday afternoon, as far as I know he is still working on the foam parts, he told me that the blue prints were done and the canpoies were done and he had all the other wood parts ready and he was cutting foam. He should be ready to ship kits soon !

Good Job Mark, That is going to be one of the planes to have for next year and there are going to be some of the 118 for sale.
Yo Tony are you moving up to advance next year, I'm thinking about it, if you move up I will if not I'll stay just to be a pain in your arsse, LOL just messing with you, I do love my Carden.

Posted By Mark Mcclellan on 10 Aug 2010 13:16
Who needs practic anyway !

i heard UNLIMITED pilots do not need practice

Yea it's over rated, when you get as good as me you no longer need to do that !

Primo...you might as well move up to advanced cause the Redneck squad all moved up to unlimited and all you would have to compete with is that Garland boy...piece of cake: pops

LOL, Hey Don't forget Macarroni or is he going all the way to unlimited.

Well I had a bad case of the Carden buildingsobmnia so I got up at 12 and worked on it for a little while.

I worked on geting the the foam ready like cutting the wing tube socket, towards the inside of the tube there is a ply support and it was well above the foam so I had to trim this off. I have not glue it yet so if it looks like I may be making a mistake please let me know, I also made a end cap on the socket so that the wing tube has a hard point on witch to rest on and not the foam. you will see what I mean on the pics.

I don't know if you guys can see it on this pic but, should I sand on the wing core to get rid of some of the areas where the wire seem to have taking extra foam. It seems to me that it would show on the skin if I don't, this maybe a small detail, sugestions would be appriciated.

I lightly sand the cores then blow them off before sheeting but don't try to sand them smooth, not needed just get some of the rough off of it.

Also if you are going to sheet with pro-bond I would seal the end of that socket with a full end cap to keep glue from foaming into it when sheeting the wing.

Thanks Mark, will do.

Get to work man. You have plenty of poker money to buy glue with now. LOL

Jerry, stop practicing...your moving up to fast. If you dont, im gonna tell everyone thats a 50cc plane in your avitar and your a pigmey.

That looks like a 40% with Jerry standing next to it!!!!!!
Doc

I would have posted sooner, but i was at the field practicing with my 50cc 40% Extra.

Jerry, Wayne and me TEAM SHORT STROKE!!!!!

OK, I did work on the plane last night, felt good to get back on it. I have the sheeting almost ready to go on the wings, I just need to trim them better, I started to get the root wing caps ready last night. I need opinions on should I use studs or go with the 8/32 socket head bolts. I think using studs makes installing the wings on a little easier. I wil post pics later

DA sells some aluminum studs.

Short studs are the way to go. (Pun intended)

Studs it is!!, sounds like another G job.

DONT ALL STUDS COME FROM THE SOUTHEAST

Posted By Bruce Ransome on 18 Aug 2010 18:10
DONT ALL STUDS COME FROM THE SOUTHEAST

Dam Strait!!!

Primo....I'm assuming you will have this plane finished and bringing it this weekend to Youth Masters.....right?

Well is about 25% complete so if I do the math again and stay up for the next 48 hrs, I just might make it.

I don't think I can make it to the Youth Masters this year. Would love too, just because Jerry is bringing my 4th wheeler back.

Posted By Bruce Ransome on 18 Aug 2010 18:10
DONT ALL STUDS COME FROM THE SOUTHEAST

Yea and a couple stubbs too !

OK guys I manage to find some time to work on the plane. On my last post I think I mention working on getting the wing end caps ready. In order to find where to cut the saquare 1/4 inch blocks for the Primo's Studs that is, here's what I did. I extended the incidence line on the plans, then I found center on the end cap and drew a line thru it and on the ends. I position the end cap over the plans and line up this marks, once I was happy with the location I drew a vertical line on the plans using the edge of the wing cap as a guide. I used this point the meassure back to the center of the hard points.

Now that I have the loaction is was just a matter of marking them on the end cap. I used my calipers to scribe the center lines of the hard blocks, I used this lines to center the hard block on the end cap.

I put the end cap on the fuse and used T pins to see if I needed to adjust the location and there was no need to.

This four blocks you see here are the ones that get glued in the fuse, just getting them ready for now.

Well That's all I have for now hope to be working on it tonight.

Wing's level Yall.

Posted By Primo Rivera on 18 Aug 2010 22:05
Well is about 25% complete so if I do the math again and stay up for the next 48 hrs, I just might make it.

Great! We'll see you there!