Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 23:14:19 +0000 From: robin du bois Subject: COZY: Re: Glue gun, yuck! Try super glue on your ailerons The hot glue gun has one major drawback, the stuff can be messy and hard to remove, and sometimes it decides not to work very well. I tryed the big bottles of thick jelly type superglue with the spritzer of insta stet and never looked back. Tip, if you are lining up your torque tubes and drilling them, (you are using taper pins, right?) you can set the whole run up on a flat surface, aileron all the way in to the wing root shaft, and freeze the parts in alignment, which you first set up with your electronic level...to within a tenth of a degree, way too accurate. This is a neat way to go, you can simply zero the level on the aileron and the set the bell crank to a correct relative angle...works every time. Just be sure to set the inboard end of the run up on a block to simulate the upslope to the wingroot, or maybe you Mark four guys don't have that. Oh well, I had a good time doing it that way after messing up on the other side and re doing it! Works for the cabin runs too, just install all the stuff and mark the lengths accurately with a black Sharpie first, doing it all and finding it's 1/8" too long or short sucks. I have a taper pin reamer which I will loan to anyone who is considering this route. Robin du Bois Allero Avionics Engine temperature and fuel flow monitors Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 21:02:43 -0500 (EST) From: Westlande@aol.com Subject: Re: COZY: Birch plywood is it all the same? (U) In a message dated 2/19/97 5:02:53 PM, you wrote: >Same question for 5-minute epoxy. Is the stuff from Wicks or A/C the same >as I get at the hobby store (besides being more expensive)? Buy a hot glue gun. There is almost no place you can't use it, it's cheaper, sets quicker, no mixing and odor free. On the other hand, there is not much else you can do than hop around and swear while you wait for the hot glue to cool on your fingers. Keep it out of the fuel system (strakes). Eric Westland