YEP, that was one method I tried and it worked great! I also made up a little tool with about a 50 degree acute angle on its face and just slid it up along the excessg glue while wet and just scraped it out, that worked ok too, and a slight radius on the gusset and they fit like a glove.
Chris Johnston North Richmond Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry&Sallie Flesner" <fles...@verizon.net> To: "KRnet" <kr...@mylist.net> Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2006 12:40 AM Subject: Re: KR> gussets > At 09:25 AM 5/4/2006, you wrote: >> Some time ago I listed a posting on fitting cross members with >> gussets already fitted, and somebody replied saying that the >> curvature of the side frame would pose a problem, >> I really think the core of the problem is being missed, being >> that the number of variables are being reduced by fixing the >> gussets to the cross member, its much easier to fit one cross >> member and its associated bits, than to try and fit three pieces >> which will slip and slop and slide all over the place, how you want >> to mate those components together with the side frame is a minor >> problem and can be done by whatever method you see fit, you can >> always fit the cross member and then the gussets later, ( and this >> works cause thats the way I did it ), but then you have to get >> excess dried glue out of the joint, which in itself is not impossible to >> do, >> Chris johnston > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > When I started my project, the sides and bottom of the "boat" were > completed > without gussets installed. I too had many joints that had excess glue > squeezed > out. Rather than remove the excess glue I simply sanded a slight bevel on > that > edge of the gusset to make it seat properly. Within reason, the gap > filling qualities > of the epoxies we us leave some room for error. Also, with nearly every > gusset > joint in the boat having a ply backing, I suspect it's really not > that big of a deal. > For the few joints that aren't ply backed, a small piece of triangle > cut ply could > be added quite easily. 209 hours on my airframe without a problem would > indicate to me that it works o.k. > > Larry Flesner > > > > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html >