[WWI] Aaaaaaaargh!

[Dave Calhoun]

This bad luck must be going around!  Last night I glued the upper wing and struts on my Roden Fokker D.VII and everything measured out level and straight when I superglued the struts in place.  Tonight after work, I noticed one of the upper N struts was not attached to the wing.  I put a drop of super glue on the strut, pressed down the upper wing, and had the N strut shatter into about 4 pieces!  Luckily I have a couple of other Roden D.VII's in my stash, so time to pull out the N struts and hope for better luck tonight.
Dave 
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Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 18:24:45 -0500
From: "Rick Geisler" <ragfokker at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [WWI] Aaaaaaaargh!
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Mike said:
>Yup...same thing happened to me when I was 1 wire away from finishing the
>Ansaldo Ballila a few months ago. Off to the closet with it where I may 
>take
>it up again in a few months/years. I have found that, when I have a major
>screw-up, it is somewhat liberating to just smash it into a bazillion 
>pieces
>and then get all excited about a new project.
>Mike Muth

Don Said:
> > >I was just rigging the Blue Max Halberstadt when, after various 
>mishaps,
>I
> > >managed to knock the top wing off, leaving it hanging by the rigging 
>and
> > >turnbuckles. I've also completely mislaid a vital white metal sprue, 
>and
> > >the lovely 'flame red' decal shattered
> > Aaaaaaaargh!



Don and Mike,
You have given me the opportunity to admit a recent disaster that I glossed 
over! While building the Eduard Albatros DIII for IM I was 2 wires away from 
finishing when a couple of wires popped loose. I removed them, and 
RE-Drilled the locating holes. I was beginning to start the re-attachment 
when I heard a snapping sound. The Cabane strut on one side broke due to the 
force of the rigging pulling to one side! I got so frustrated As the wing 
cellule collapsed that I tore the upper wing off. This was after 3 months on 
and off of building! The amazing thing is that I saved the interior, used 
another DIII kit, and built another one in less than 1 month :-) There you 
have it, the rest of the story, as I figured Matt didn't want another 
"disaster while building " article for IM :-)
Rick G.