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
>
>
>
>
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