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2. Working carefully without cutting into the balsa, use
your heated soldering iron or a sharp hobby knife to cut the
covering from the sides of the fin and the top of the
fuselage.
Make sure you cut just inside the
lines–approximately 1/32" [.5mm]–so that none of the balsa
will be exposed when all the parts are joined.
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3. Use one of your paper towel squares moistened with
denatured alcohol to wipe away the ink lines.
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4. Use 30-minute epoxy to glue the fin to the fuselage
with T-pins to hold the fin in position. Before the epoxy
hardens use a builder’s square to check to see if the fin is
perpendicular to the stab. If necessary, use tape to pull the
fin over to one side or the other to get the fin vertical. Allow
the epoxy to harden before proceeding.
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5. Take out the T-pins. Glue the tri-stock fin braces into
position with 30-minute epoxy, using T-pins to hold them
in place.
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6. While you have some epoxy mixed, glue in both
wing dowels.
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7. Fit both hardwood servo rails in the slots in both sides
of the fuselage. Position the forward rail as far forward as it
will go and glue it into place, but do not glue in the aft rail
until instructed to do so.
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8. Cut all but the bottom barbs off the tail skid so it looks
like the one in the photo.
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9. Cut the covering from the holes in the bottom of the back
end of the fuselage and securely glue the tail skid into position.
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