SlowBipe ARF Construction Manual
This manual will illustrate the construction of the SlowBipe airplane from kit to flight.
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www.slowbipe.com/products.asp
for a full color version of this manual.
The magnets are already installed. Some of the assembly on this kit is already done. This
manual documents setting up the SlowBipe using the Power Pack and Servo Pack from
SlowBipe.com.
Warning:
Do not use CA or Super Glue. Even some “foam safe” cyanoacrylate glues
will attack the blue foam in this kit.
For this build I used Gorilla Glue for everything. Once you learn how much of it to use,
it is one of the strongest and lightest glues you can use. If you have not used it before, do
some test glues on something that you can throw away. Be sure to spread a thin film of
the glue all the way to the edges of what you want to glue. I spread roughly over the
entire surface to be glued, then wipe it to a thin film with a wiper. I am supplying several
pieces of scrap foam to be used as a wiper during construction.
Fuselage Construction
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Using your glue of choice, do the following steps
o
Insert the 4 included plywood keys into the slots in the 4- one inch thick
fuselage core pieces. The keys then align the core pieces to the locations
they go on the depron fuselage sides. Please see the picture. You can glue
them onto one side now. The four pieces are as follows:
Servo block – Place this so that the slots cut for the servo wires is
on the opposite side of the fuselage from the cutout for the servo’s.
Top Wing Saddle – This piece already has the two magnets glued
into it.
Bottom Wing Saddle – This piece already has a landing gear block
glued in.
Firewall Core Piece – This piece already has the plywood firewall
and a landing gear block glued in.
