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| Gluing a biscuit into Prop Shaft Rear part |
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| Applying glue to outside of biscuit |
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| Inserting biscuit |
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| Biscuit in place |
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| Tool for keeping biscuits perpendicular in the Prop Shaft parts |
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| Special tool to maintain biscuit face perpendicularity in Prop Shaft Rear part |
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| Biscuit in place |
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| Making a donut shaped biscuit that goes around the Fuse Tube |
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| Two of the finished Fuse Tube biscuits and other biscuits |
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| Getting ready to glue another biscuit (donut shaped to clear Fuse Tube) |
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| Inserting donut shaped biscuit |
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| Gluing a Titanium part that is part of the rear bearing seat assembly into the Prop Shaft Rear part using a custom designed alignment tool |
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| Donut shaped biscuit in place |
Video of assembling biscuit that goes around Fuse Tube
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| Two Prop Shaft Rear parts with biscuits glued in place, drying |
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| All the cores for the constant chord part of the wing trailing edge for the airplane |
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| The Balsa Express -- all the balsa for the wing end ribs, on its way to get cut on the laser |
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| Chris ready to ride (once he puts his helmet on!) |
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| Removing sacrificial layers from Prop Pin Support Tube so that it can slip fit with Prop Pin |
Video of removing sacrificial layer from Prop Pin Support Tube
Video showing Prop Pin tubing (not cut to length) fitting into Prop Pin Support Tube
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| In process of sanding Prop Pin Support Tube to fit inside Prop Shaft Rear |
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| Some of the gussets used to support the Prop Pin Support Tube inside the prop shaft |
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| Applying glue to the back side of the Prop Pin Support Tube prior to gluing |
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| Prop Pin Support Tube and center gussets in place |
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| Applying smaller gusset to Prop Pin Support Tube |
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| Ready to glue second biscuit to enclose Prop Pin Support Tube |
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| Inserting the biscuit |
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| Prop Pin Support tube fully enclosed inside biscuits (through hole on surfaces to be cut out later) |
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| Two completed Prop Shaft Rear assy's drying (one including Titanium rear bearing part glued this day |
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| Foam-only biscuit for Prop Pin |
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| Gluing biscuit into Prop Pin |
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| Prop Pin with end cap and three biscuits in place |
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| Prepping a support board for wing rib vacuum bagging |
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| A glued and taped main wing rib section (Rib 0) , inside shuck, ready for vacuum bagging |
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| Two wing rib sections covered with bleeder cloth, ready for bagging |
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| Loading a wing rib section into the vacuum bag |
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| Applying the vacuum connection |
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| Connection in place, sealing the bag |
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| Sealing the vacuum bag |
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| Vacuum gauge setup |
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| Two wing rib sections under vacuum to glue laminations in place |
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| A completed rib section |
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