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[Ryans Rebel]

Thanks for dropin in Walt! Great job so far my man!

[shawn260]

	Quote: Originally Posted by Wayne
	What is amazing is the size of the shop Walt works in. It barely fits a plane like this when its being built. I couldnt build a straight plane in a Blimp Hangar and he does it in a shoebox.

must be a professional builder thing..A.J. builds in a 2 car garage and puts his wife's suburban in the garage EVERY night.

[zzw26n]

	Quote: Originally Posted by Ryans Rebel
	Fuse layout. After all the adjustments are made with the clamps and weights I drilled the angles at this position to the bench. Remember, when I say "I", that is Walt talking!

Walt,

It looks like you have 2 pieces of 5/8" Drywall as the Table top? Is this what you screw into? or all the way into the wood top?

thanks, Ward

[Walt]

	Quote: Originally Posted by zzw26n
	Walt, It looks like you have 2 pieces of 5/8" Drywall as the Table top? Is this what you screw into? or all the way into the wood top? thanks, Ward

Hi Ward: There is one piece of 5/8ths drywall on the bench. The screws go through the drywall into the bench top maybe a 1/4 inch. There's not a whole lot but still a pretty good amount of pressure pushing against these angles. After I anchored the 1st side I pulled the other side up against the fuse side with a couple grip clamps between the formers from angle to angle to straighten the whole thing up, then screwed down the opposite side. With all the stringer work about to start I didn't want this coming loose...Walt

[Ryans Rebel]

I should have posted these earlier. It is the pilot figure I shipped to Walt. It is a 40% Composite Creations. I panted it with PPG single stage concept paint. Should give you an idea of the colors I plan to use

Walt uses black sticky-back velcro for the sboulder straps.

[Ryans Rebel]

Each former in the hatch area has a 1/4sq spruce doubler on the front and back side. From the hatch back one doubler on one side. There's a diagonal running top and bottom from each former to fuse corner running opposite from top to bottom. To make things a little less cluttered I figured it to be easier to install the top side first before the stringer/ longerons are installed.

[Ryans Rebel]

Pics of the rear going together.

[Ryans Rebel]

side stringers and doubler

[Ryans Rebel]

And the Foreman! Someone has to make sure Walt is doing things correctly

[gareth.ky]

Is that sheetrock your building on there Walt?

That thing goes together like tinker toys. I see you using squares and such but it looks like the parts are cut to very high tolerances.

[Walt]

	Quote: Originally Posted by gareth.ky
	Is that sheetrock your building on there Walt? That thing goes together like tinker toys. I see you using squares and such but it looks like the parts are cut to very high tolerances.

Hey gareth.ky...I cover the bench top with 1/2 or 5/8th's drywall. It holds pins well, its very flat and after a couple builds its a cheap replacement for the next couple. The laser cutting on this is very nice. It takes some pounding to snap it together, the tolerances are very tight. All the fuse formers being light ply have a natural set to them. The stringers will actually hold them into a flat and straight position when assembling the stringers. I'm squaring each one as I go. I'm really enjoying this build, it actually neat to see it come together..

[prizzy]

The plane is coming together nicely! That is one happy looking Beagle.

[kajunkane]

Looks like fun. Bet monokote is running low on red, black and yellow right about now. Can't wait to see it Ryan. You gotta let me come ofer for some covering lessons though.

[JPrc]

Gary, Ryan only covers in straight lines brother. When you get done with monokote 101 come see me and worm, will show you how to bling it out!

[DA2000]

Awwww Yea!

Time for a SpongeBob/Worm tutorial on monokote templates.

Hurry up, I'll be covering in a month.