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2) Carefully remove the covering from the bottom of the wing
at the location of the plywood plates by using a sharp knife to cut
the covering approximately 3/32” inside the drawn lines and
remove the covering from the wing.
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3) Use Medium CA to glue the plywood plates to the bottom of
the wing. Now mount the wing onto the fuselage and install the
nylon bolts through the wing and into the blind nuts installed in the
fuselage. Now remove the wing and bolts and set them aside until
later.
ASSEMBLING THE FUSELAGE:
Preparing The Fuselage:
For the following step you will need the fuselage.
The fuselage has been built and covered but there are several
openings that must now be opened up. These are:
1 - Stabilizer & Rudder openings...Located at rear of
fuselage
2 - Antenna Exit opening...Located on the bottom rear
of fuselage
3 - Three screw holes for mounting landing gear...Located
on the bottom of the fuselage just ahead of the wing
opening.
4 - Engine compartment drain hole...Located on the
bottom of the fuselage just ahead of the firewall.
Installing the Main Landing Gear
For the following step you will need:
• The Fuselage
• 1 each Formed Aluminum Main Landing Gear
• 2 each M4 x 30mm Phillips Head Screws
• 2 each M4 Hex Nuts
• 2 each M4 Flat Metal Washers
• 2 each 4mm I. D. Wheel Collars with set screws
• 1 each Allen "L" Wrench
• 3 each M4 x 16mm Phillips Head Screws.
Note: When assembling the hardware in the following steps you
must use a thread-locking compound such as Locktite #242.
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1) Slip one M4 washer onto each M4 x 30mm Phillips Head
Screw. Insert the screws into the axle holes at the bottom of the
landing gear legs, from the inside surface. Thread one M4 hex nut
onto the threads of each screw, all of the way up to the
Antenna exit
Pushrod exit
Gear Screw Holes
Drain Hole
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