User Manual
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----- THE PROCESS / words (con’t) -----
The next several steps will all be done WITHOUT GLUE it is for test fitting only and to
understand how the assembly will go together, study the pictures and make sure everything
fits together nicely
Take the top half of the fuselage with the spars sticking out and feed those spar ends thru the cut outs in the fuselage
Get it pretty close to the tabs, then focus your attention the the rear Ele/Rud spar and feed it thru its associated hole
Fully engage all the tabs and slots
Make sure that the bevels on the top of the fuselage are LEVEL, if they are not, you have assembled the pieces incorrectly
Grab the lower fuselage half and align the tabs at a slight angle to the slots in the fuselage
Engage the tabs into the slots at the same time as guiding the carbon spars into their respective slits
Push everything together, making sure that it all fits nice, flush and square
If any parts are not flush, fully engaged or not square, make the necessary adjustment to get everything fitting properly
This completes the TEST FIT WITH NO GLUE, keep in mind how it all went together and
disassembly all the pieces
Start the reassembly with the main fuselage piece and the top half of the other side of the fuselage
Apply FoamTac to the larger piece in all the areas where the two items will contact each other including the tab and slot
areas
Keep glue AWAY from the area where the spars cross thru
Fit the upper fuselage half and the strut spars thru the holes in the large fuselage piece like was done in the test fit up
Make sure all the foam tabs and slots are fulling engaged and that the strut spars and Ele/Rud spar are in their slits and
flush
Make sure the two upper fuselage member are nice and square with each other
Apply a little pressure to the assembly for a couple minutes to allow the FoamTac to make a good bond
Next the lower fuselage half will be attached, apply FoamTac to all the mating FOAM surfaces
DO NOT PUT GLUE THE SPARS AT THIS TIME
Move the two pieces into position as was done with the fit up
Make sure the foam tabs and slots are fully engaged
Double check that the spars are (dry fit) flush with the surface of their slits
Make sure all the fuselage pieces are 90 degrees to each other along the entire length
Hold a little pressure on the two pieces for a minute or two so that the FoamTac can make a good bond
NOW the spars will be secured with CA to their slits
Make sure that all the fuselage components are still square and that the spars are flush in the slits
Apply thin CA to all the spars and hit with kicker
This completes the Main Fuselage Structure