Saturday, January 10, 2009

Build-Restarted

Well... after a false start with the first side truss we have dicovered that it isn't the cutting of the parts that's wrong - its the plans. Somehow they have shrunk in the vertical dimension only. So, to cut a long story short, the plan of attack is now to build based on the parts cut using the plans for guidance in the horizontal direction only. Closer examination of the plans has also revealed that some components have not been cut correctly (and will therefore have to be replicated by hand here) and that while the instructions refer to modifying a set of Robart retracts for the main landing gear, that the plans fail to show the relevant details and indicate a set of "Goldberg" retracts are to be used. All in all - this is going to keep getting interesting. Anyhow, construction is underway. Photos below showing the first truss 'setting' and the 'box of bits' from the kit cutters.

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