Jim,
I have built a whole bunch of those.
I align it by resting the fuse in the building table on the wing saddle. I then use scrap balsa pieces to hold the tail boom up so its completely parallel with the table top. Side to side alignment is done by eye. I use thickened epoxy to fill up the gap between the boom and the fuse and use a rotating motion to work the thickened epoxy in. Make sure the tail boom is as far enough in as the instructions specify. Once the thickened epoxy has set I put a glass and wrap around the joint and I put a reinforcing piece of glass and epoxy that goes around the bottom of the fuse and way up the pod and around the wrapped joint. This is probably an overkill, but I once has a tail boom yank loose and was only saved by the fact that my skeg was screwed in through the fuse and the boom. I was wondering why I had to feed in more and more up elevator trim all day!
Anker
At 10:37 AM 2/28/2005, Jim Prouty wrote:
Hi All,
I have a Pretty Mantis fuse now and noticed that it only comes with one sheet of instructions that are pretty general. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to install the tailboom? What do you use as a reference to make sure the incidence is correct? Should I just use epoxy to mount it or use a filler as well?
Any information would be greatly appreciated.
Happy flying,
Jim www.jtmodels.com
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