There was an article in RCM several years back that describe a technique
similar to mine but more complicated because he used balsa longerons and
because of it he had to reinforce with hardwood each time the wire changed
direction.
>Once the fuse is aligned and the holes are filled with CA, do you release the
tensioning device?
No it is left in as part of the aircraft.
>I wondered. If you are using scale type construction in other areas why do you
use, what I call, model type construction for the wing ribs?
I tried building ribs for a sport plane along time ago and did not find any
real advantages and several diadvantages. Bad points, need to build a jig,
time required to make each rib, multiple glue joints to fail.
Built up ribs look impressive in pictures of an uncovered structure but once
covered don't look any different.
>Have you ever done a wire trailing edge?
Not yet but I do have an article in an old R/C Scale modeller that shows how to
do it.
>OK. These areas need additional strength. I wonder if a thinner lite ply rib,
or built up rib, couldn't be used in place of a balsa rib. I realize
it is more work and perhaps this is enough of a motivating factor to
build ribs from balsa and perhaps just cut lightening holes!
See above response on ribs.
>Rigging is an area where I have piddeled and fiddeled
I think we all have tried to find a cheaper and easier way of doing this.
> I do like the DuBro 2-56 rigging couplers.
I used these exclusively on both my Bristol 1/5 scale and Nie 17 1/4 scale. It
is the only way I have found to assemble and disassemble rirgging in a
reasonable amount of time.
>They are a bit big for 1/6 scale but are convenient, and not too expensive.
When you actually figure it out they end up being between 6 and 12" long on the
real airplane, not totally unreasonable. The big problem is that the
appearence is not right.
>Any ideas you might have in this area would be great to hear! Rigging is
something I never see any of the modeling mags talk about. Unless they have a
handful of the expensive hardware to show off!
I only wish the was a rubber cover that went over the Dubro coupler and kwick
clip that made appear to be scale.
Illusions it's all illusions
Tally ho
Guy