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Building instructions for the R700 Roundnose Classic Hydro 

 
Glueing is done with Ca and white glue. 
Start by taking out all formers and clean up the edges . 
 
Do not use glue yet 

 

The hull is a egg crate consrtuction , use main formers  F4 to start, then place F8, F7,F6. 
Place F5 left and right side. 

 

Place formers F3.  

 

 

 

 

Place Former F2. 

Summary of Contents for R700 Roundnose

Page 1: ... Glueing is done with Ca and white glue Start by taking out all formers and clean up the edges Do not use glue yet The hull is a egg crate consrtuction use main formers F4 to start then place F8 F7 F6 Place F5 left and right side Place formers F3 Place Former F2 ...

Page 2: ...mers F1 F9 F10 F11 F12 F13 F15 Now take place the hull on a flat workplate and support the mainformers with a piece of wood to asure a straight hull Glue all formers with ca glue Formers F14 needs to be chamfered ...

Page 3: ...for a good fit of F14 to the mainformer and glue with ca or white glue Turn hull upside down and support the hull with some wood Place spruce stringers onto middle bottom And balsa stringers on sides not on picture ...

Page 4: ... to outside of the main floats sand to form and sheet Sides first with the pre cut 0 6mm plywood note the nose is different from the kit version Use white glue for planking the underside of the hull with the pre cut 0 6mm plywood ...

Page 5: ...5 Smooth the sheeting sides to take the balsa top sheeting Start sheeting with 3x25mm strip ...

Page 6: ...6 You have to sand th esheeting strip for a tight fit Cut the top curve into the sheeting and sand hull smooth Brush white glue on the hull top and let dry ...

Page 7: ... white glue to the other side let dry When dry cut strips of 33m mahogany and use a household iron to iron on the mahogany strip use high temp setting It is possible to steer the mahogany along the sides of allready placed srips be carful for splintereing ...

Page 8: ...sheeting gives best results Cut the cowl to size along the inscribed lines best is to take some oversize to avoid cutting of too much Place a small strip of plywood to couple the 2 parts use the hull as reference ...

Page 9: ...9 Make the cowl frame acording the drawing and chamfer the top of the frame to take the cowl You can use a press fit to secure the cowl onto the hull as finished ...

Page 10: ...10 Cowl frame shown Hardware as mounted ...

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