I guess it would be better to have the glue joint going vertical if you had a really crappy glue joint. In that case you would have two independent strong spars next to each other. Of course, if you have leave crappy glue joint in your spars you should give up right there and stick to model planes.
Brian Kraut Engineering Alternatives, Inc. www.engalt.com -----Original Message----- From: krnet-boun...@mylist.net [mailto:krnet-boun...@mylist.net]On Behalf Of Mark Langford Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 8:35 PM To: KRnet Subject: KR> Re: Spar lamination direction Brian Kraut wrote: > The only thing I wouldn't do is build a spar with a horizontal glue line > right where a bolt hole is going for the wing attach fitting. This question has come up several times, and I believe a search through the archives will uncover a reply from our resident structural engineer whiz, Don Reid. His take on it is exactly that, it doesn't matter either way, but don't put a bolt through the glue line. I did it the way I did it because it came from Wicks sawn such that it was obvious that this was the way it had to go. I figured they knew what they were doing... Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama N56ML "at" hiwaay.net see KR2S project at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford _______________________________________ to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
