OK, before we get started on the plans, I decided to remove the extra stock on the bottom of the leading edge I previously mentioned in post 12. I wanted to put the wing back on the plans so it layed flat. So, what I did was I placed a 1/8" sheet of covering on the bottom of the wing against the leading edge and drew a blue line with a sharpie. I carefully layed the wing on several towels and because there was so much stock to remove, rather than use the long board and manually sand, I used my palm sander with 80 grit paper. I CAREFULLY removed the stock short of the blue line. By doing this, I was able to lay the wing back onto the plans and I pinned the wing to the work surface - see pics below.


Now that the wing is flat again, I feel better and ready to move forward!


Step 14:
So in this step we slide the wing spar into the wing and check for fit. The spar supposed to fit snuggly, but you should be able to slide it in and remove it freely. You may have to sand a few of the ribs; I had to sand one rib for the spar to move freely. I used a small, fine file to do the job since I didn’t want to remove too much material.

I slid the spar into the wing until the line inscribed in the middle of the spar was even with W1. I slid the spar further into the wing than the pic indicates, for illustrative purposes only. I slid the spar in the wing, note there is room between the rib and spar.

Step 15:

1. I used the supplied 3/8 x 3/4 balsa strip to make the spar housing. The strip has to be cut to length, ends sanded properly so each piece will rest above the spar removing the room above the spar you see in the above photo. I test fit each piece carefully tacked them in with CA. The balsa strips removes the sloppy fit of the spar. At the end of the spar, I added a small "stop" so I had some "meat" to glue the balsa strip to in this section.

2. I kept sliding the spar in and out of the wing each time I glued a balsa piece into each section to make sure everything fit tightly and I wasn't getting glue onto the spar. I didn't want to accidently glue the spar into the wing because I got careless with the glue.

3. After all the balsa is in place for the spar housing, next is to cut the spar webbing. Before I did that however, there was a minor twist in the wing. So I decided to place dive weights on the wing so all the ribs were flat against the table and let it sit over night. I did this with both wings and decided to glue the webbing in later which should take out the minor twist.


Till next time!!!

Why did you stop?

How far you get on it?

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He hasn't been online in about a month...

I guess life happens.... Bummer as he was off to a great thread!

I just bought a meister Zero. Would be nice to see some active/live builds.

Originally Posted by Ragz

I just bought a meister Zero. Would be nice to see some active/live builds.

I wanted to see one too...
Eyes are on you


I know it is a lot more work, but would love to see you document your build.

And I will I assure you. Right here.

Originally Posted by Ragz

I just bought a meister Zero. Would be nice to see some active/live builds.

I think you just volunteered...

Originally Posted by Ragz

And I will I assure you. Right here.

Awesome!

Looks great, but I'm not sure if "novice" is applicable, those are pretty serious machine and tools you got there. Looking forward to the rest of the build!

This is about where I am with my build as well. Please tell me it got finished. Would love to see more pics.

Found this thread and digging it up from the dead. I have purchased this plane from Perry and will continue the build. It's currently loaded in my trailer as im making a move to AZ from WA. Stay tuned and in the next few months i'll be posting

Bryan

I have a almost complete wing w FG fuselage to finish this Meister Jug.
Please post your build so I can follow along.