fly boy3 Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 Hi all, after 30 years of building I,ve gone and done it lol. I built two l/h fus. The bad thing about it that I had written a note in my build log to remind me. Is it an age thing ? Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Piers Bowlan Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 Brilliant idea David. There are only two types of modellers, those who have done that and those that will do that at some point in the future! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex nicol Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 Made me smile for exactly the same reason, but I would say 3 types of modellers, Those that haven't yet, but will, Those that have and did build the spare fuselage Those that did build the spare fuselage and we're glad they did because it was needed 6 months later !!!!!! Happy building Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan M Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 Will it convert to control-line..? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel R Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 let us know how #3 turns out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ken anderson. Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 well done FB3...we've all done it and worse..... ken anderson...ne...1...worse dept. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fly boy3 Posted February 7, 2019 Author Share Posted February 7, 2019 Thanks for the comments lads, feel better already lol Nigel R, already made and glued another after checking three times. LoL. Too cold to stay long in my shed at the moment. ps, I remember years ago when starting a fellow club member going nuts after building two right hand wings, I know now how daft he felt. Cheers Edited By fly boy3 on 07/02/2019 17:04:43 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Walby Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 Put one of them in a safe place, that way you will never need it, but you will keep coming across it when you are looking for something else. Or ebay it as an exclusive spare part....only one else build from yourself and your are not prepared to sell it, so it must be worth a lot of money! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel R Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 After cunningly building a fuselage upside down for some reason, I then proceeded to build in upthrust. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Levanter Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 FB3 What glue did you use and how long ago? Levanter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Miller Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 I have Built one. Glued the doubler on with impact adhesive. I was dead lucky I actually had not stcuk them together. .I managed to get the impact adhesive off with Acetone. IT actually came off easily and left no residue. I have also built two right hand wings. Pucliky only on a Veron DEacon which doexs not involve too much wood or work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Dance 1 Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 It's not that we've all done it, two identical fuselage sides, two identical wing panels, up thrust instead of down thrust etc that's so frustrating but that we know it's possible and we've done all sorts of things to stop it happening and it still does that's the really frustrating thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Rudd Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 I actually bought an artf from my lhs, it came with two same handed wings! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Braddock, VC Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 Posted by John Rudd on 07/02/2019 19:46:35: I actually bought an artf from my lhs, it came with two same handed wings! That happened to me as well, strangely there were two opposite handed wings as well, I just love my Ultimate bipe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Hargreaves - Moderator Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 Posted by Nigel R on 07/02/2019 17:36:16: After cunningly building a fuselage upside down for some reason, I then proceeded to build in upthrust. I managed to build in some left thrust to a fuselage once......my excuse was that the fuselage had to be built upside down...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Robertson 3 Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 Me? No fuselage problems. Just a spoiler popping UP on the left wing, correctly. The right wing? Spoiler popped down, as carefully and accurately built by me. How did THAT happen? How . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Harris - Moderator Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 Being a superior modeller, I laughed in the face of those building two identical parts and took great care to carve mirror image cheek pieces to fit on the two fuselages of my Extra Slim Twin. After covering, I offered them up to the fuselage to glue them in place and one was the wrong way round - how could that be? Then the penny dropped - although on opposite sides of the centre line, the fuselages were identical and of course the cheek pieces needed to be the same... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Fry Posted February 8, 2019 Share Posted February 8, 2019 I set a 1/4 scale triplanes fusalage alight once, how I jumped with glee, and sang loud praises. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy G. Posted February 8, 2019 Share Posted February 8, 2019 I built not two but THREE right hand wings once!! That was annoying! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piers Bowlan Posted February 8, 2019 Share Posted February 8, 2019 That is taking this duplicate building thing to the next level Andy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kc Posted February 8, 2019 Share Posted February 8, 2019 The way to avoid the problem is to mark all the areas to be glued - a large pencilled cross is the traditional woodworkers way I was taught at school. Still works. Most instructions call for impact adhesive for fiting ply doublers - works well and is quick. However I can find no disadvantage ( except drying time ) in using PVA and just weighting down the ply overnight. Gives plenty of chances to get the alignment right and some chance to avod two left sides too. I have also used glue film ( as used in veneering & marquetry ) which is placed between the ply and balsa and the ply heated with an iron ( covering iron or domestic laundry type) which works OK. Instead of gluefilm some people use PVA which is left to dry before ironing down. The PVA version is similar to the way photographers etc mounted photos onto card mounts starting in the 1960's. This was an improvement(?) on the very old photographic dry mounting tissue - but that's nothing like glue film which is thicker and stickier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Harris - Moderator Posted February 8, 2019 Share Posted February 8, 2019 Posted by Don Fry on 08/02/2019 06:43:11: I set a 1/4 scale triplanes fusalage alight once, how I jumped with glee, and sang loud praises. Reminds me of an early aeromodelling experience at around 12 or 13 when I was attempting to correct a newly finished warped tissue and doped glider wing in front of an electric fire element and got too close...it was like watching film of the Hindenberg disaster! Fortunately the wing was the only casualty but perhaps this early traumatic experience explains my aversion to wing building? Edited By Martin Harris on 08/02/2019 13:35:20 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Fry Posted February 8, 2019 Share Posted February 8, 2019 And on the subject of left, right, upside down, I tried to maiden a Yak 55M this week, with a laser 80 shoehorned into the poor airframe. It needed a chicken hopper tank system. One tank goes in from the bottom, so the fuse it mounted upside down. One tank goes in from the top, so it sits on its undercarriage. I remember the nightmare of getting the tanks the right or wrong way up, whatever way you look at it. But earlier in the week, I couldn't get it to run properly, freezing cold. And I had the only sensible thought to go through the brain cell. Go home enforce you break something. Today sorted out the vice versa fuel pipes. Dennis your advice it valid. Just too much for the brain cell. For enforce read before. Edited By Don Fry on 08/02/2019 17:36:29 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fly boy3 Posted February 9, 2019 Author Share Posted February 9, 2019 Levanter, sorry missed you question. I used Aliphatic on the doublers with a touch of Araldite at the edges. Belt and braces job or over engineering ? Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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