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06-21-2007, 10:17 PM
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| If you can't HUCK it BLING IT!   Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Whidbey Island, WA Age: 34
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 |  Wing Tube Help!!!!!!
Ok.....so if you checked out my build thread for the WH SU-26 here's the deal. The wing tube is Carbon Fibre. The pheonics in the plane and wings are cardboard. I can get the tube through the pheonlic in the plane (its tight but possible). The wings though......not a chance! I can only get about 1 inch into the wing and then it simply stops. I managed to get one wing but you have to really fight it and I don't think its going all the way down yet. Anybody have a good suggestion?????? -Sand the tube -Oil the tube -Sand the cardboard -baby powder on the cardboard Let me know what you have done ASAP!!!!!!!!!!
__________________ Offical Member of Team Caribou Lou A 'Veteran' -- whether active duty, discharged,retired, or reserve --is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to 'The United States of America,' for an amount of 'up to, and including his life.' That is honor, and there are way too many people in this country today, who no longer understand that fact |
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06-21-2007, 10:26 PM
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| Bad-ass Super Contributer!   Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Midland, Texas Age: 40
Posts: 400
| Re: Wing Tube Help!!!!!!
Sam, Ran into this before. Find a dowel, longer than the socket. A dowel about a quarter inch smaller in diameter is about right. Center drill one end for a screw or bolt, put it in, cut off the head. Wrap sandpaper around the dowel until it just fits in the socket. Chuck it up, spin it, work it in and out. (sound familiar?) Do a little at a time and check your progress. You will have to sand more than you think, but you don't want to take out too much. For me, it worked great and took very little time. Daniel |
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06-21-2007, 10:44 PM
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| If you can't HUCK it BLING IT! Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Whidbey Island, WA Age: 34
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| Re: Wing Tube Help!!!!!!
NO CA in the tube, on the tube etc..... From what it feels like......the wing is a foam core so I suspect that it was weighted down to when sheeted and it compressed the pheonlic in the center. Daniel---that is going to take quite a bit of sandpaper wrapped around the dowl or I'm going to have to find quite a large dowl.
__________________ Offical Member of Team Caribou Lou A 'Veteran' -- whether active duty, discharged,retired, or reserve --is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to 'The United States of America,' for an amount of 'up to, and including his life.' That is honor, and there are way too many people in this country today, who no longer understand that fact |
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06-21-2007, 10:57 PM
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| If you can't HUCK it BLING IT! Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Whidbey Island, WA Age: 34
Posts: 7,334
| Re: Wing Tube Help!!!!!!
Tube is fine. I checked with calipers......its the same size from top to bottom
__________________ Offical Member of Team Caribou Lou A 'Veteran' -- whether active duty, discharged,retired, or reserve --is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to 'The United States of America,' for an amount of 'up to, and including his life.' That is honor, and there are way too many people in this country today, who no longer understand that fact |
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06-21-2007, 10:57 PM
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| Bad-ass Super Contributer!  | Re: Wing Tube Help!!!!!!
sam i took a 3/8 dowl and cut a 4 inch slot in it and then cut some sandpaper strips about 4 inchs long and centered then in the slots i put in my drill and spun it to take alittle out at a time.the sandpaper strips fan out when you turn it with a drill.the faster the harder they sand.if you need it let me know and i will snap you a picture.oh and make sure the dowl is long to reach the bottom of the wing tube
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06-21-2007, 10:57 PM
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| Bad-ass Super Contributer! Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Midland, Texas Age: 40
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| Re: Wing Tube Help!!!!!!
I used one that used to be a closet hanger pole. You can get them up to two inches in diameter at HD and such. | ||||||||||||||||||
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06-21-2007, 11:05 PM
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| Keeping it Real  Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Enid, OK
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| Re: Wing Tube Help!!!!!!
I had the same problem with my WH 260. I used a cylinder/brake hone attached to a drill and it fixed the problem. http://www.amazon.com/Lisle-10000-Br.../dp/B0002SQUG8 |
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