Tools and Adhesives
Tools etc:
This is a very quick and easy plane to build, not requiring difficult techniques or special equip-
ment, but even the building of Composite-ARF aircraft requires some suitable tools! You will
probably have all these tools in your workshop anyway, but if not, they are available in all good
hobby shops, or hardware stores like "Home Depot" or similar.
1.
Sharp knife (X-Acto or similar)
2.
Allen key set
(metric)
2.5mm, 3mm, 4mm & 5mm.
3. Sharp
scissors
4.
Pliers (various types)
5. Wrenches
(metric)
6.
Slotted and Phillips screwdrivers (various sizes)
7.
M3 tapping tool
(metric)
8.
Drills of various sizes
9.
Small spirit level, or incidence meter.
10. Dremel tool (or Proxxon, or similar) with cutting discs, sanding tools and mills.
11.
Sandpaper (various grits), or Permagrit sanding tools (high quality).
12. Carpet, bubble wrap or soft cloth to cover your work bench (most important !)
13. Car wax polish (clear)
14. Paper masking tape
15. Denaturised alcohol, or similar (for cleaning joints before gluing)
Adhesives:
Not all types of glues are suited to working with composite parts. Here is a selection of what we
normally use, and what we can truly recommend. Please don’t use inferior quality glues - you will
end up with an inferior quality plane, that is not so strong or safe.
1.
CA-Glue ‘Thin’ and ‘Thick’ types. We recommend ZAP, as this is a very high quality.
2.
ZAP-O or PlastiZAP, odourless (for gluing in the clear canopy)
3.
5 minute-epoxy (highest quality seems to be Z-Poxy)
4.
30 minute epoxy (stressed joints must be glued with 30 min and NOT 5 min epoxy).
5.
Epoxy laminating resin (12 - 24 hr cure) with hardener.
6.
Milled glass fibre, for adding to slow epoxy for strong joints.
7.
Microballoons, for adding to slow epoxy for lightweight filling.
At Composite-ARF we try our best to offer you a high quality kit, combined with outstanding
value-for-money, and as complete as possible. However, if you feel that some additional or dif-
ferent hardware should be included, please feel free to let us know.
Email us: [email protected]. We know that even good things can be made better !
Composite-ARF SuperXtra 330L
(3.1m span)
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