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3 years 11 months ago #22045 by kevinross
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continued

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The motor will be the Saito FG60
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3 years 11 months ago #22048 by DaveBright
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3 years 11 months ago - 3 years 11 months ago #22232 by kevinross
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Progress has been limited recently but now had some time in the workshop. Fabricated the parts for the fwd Cabane struts, doesn't look much but many hours went into planning and producing these.

The first 2 pic shows just the alloy exterior trims in place.
The third pic shows the exterior trims and the internal struts which will provide the strength. They will be laminated from 2 lengths of 0.5mm Stainless either side of 2mm T6 alloy. The accompanying drawing is a reduction from the full size drawings. I know they have 6 rivet holes and i have only 4 but i have to apply some practicality.
The last pic is the jig i made to drill the fixing holes
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3 years 11 months ago #22235 by Brian
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Thank you for the detailed description and photos Kevin. Until now I'd assumed that the cabanes were either bent up alloy strips or piano wire covered in balsa. It'll be a shame to cover up all that work!

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3 years 11 months ago #22236 by kevinross
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Hi Brian - Solid alloy cabanas are the norm for this and similar models, but due to some hardware shortages i thought why not make life difficult and build more scale like cabanes - hence all this work and brain overload.

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3 years 10 months ago - 3 years 10 months ago #22338 by kevinross
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While Mike builds a whole glider in a week, my attempts to scale up and re-engineer of the Cabane Struts is slowly progressing
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