AAAAARRRRGGGHHHH!!!!! NO! NO! NO!!!

please keep showing pix of this project. I would love to see how it comes out in wood...

Eric, my wife keeps telling me that I need to find a way to make money off of this. With the cost and quality of balsa, and the cost of shipping, I don't know that anyone would want to pay what it would cost me to make kits.

The Frugal Mark

So, I cut the parts for this last night.  Now I need to make a build table and start assembly.






The Incomplete Mark

Okay, got time to start gluing today.  I won’t do a lot of pictures, since it’s almost the same as my previous Skyray 110.  I’ll just do pics of things that are different from the first build.


The wing goes together too easily.  Everything fits just right the first time, in no time.  







As I said earlier, the fuse is ¼”, but the Maker will cut 3/32” max thickness.  So I’m laminating two 3/32” and one 1/16” fuse blanks, sandwiching the 1/16” between the two 3/32” blanks.  The laminated fuse is solid.  Doesn't bend at all, which is an advantage over my first 110.  That one twisted with prop torque.  This one won't twist at all.





I learned a couple of new things. I use Glad cling wrap over the plane to glue everything up, since CA doesn't stick to the cling wrap. But, CA DOES stick to Glad Press N' Seal.... Don't do it!

Also, I made a new building board using some purple foam that Home Depot was pushing for projects. I taped two sheets together with 3M Heavy Duty clear packing tape to make a 24"x38" to fit the desk area I have in the spare room. I normally tape the Glad cling wrap with scotch tape to the building board. But as I was tearing off the wrap and trying to lay it on the board, I found that the Glad wrap sticks to the tape. Hmmm.... So I placed two vertical strips of the packing tape on the building board, and then stretched the cling wrap over them to hold it in place. Works great! When I'm done with this project, I'm going to put several strips on the board so that I can hold down the cling wrap this way for all future builds.

More to come…

The Streamlined Mark

This is really great stuff Mark.
I look forward to it getting finished.
Do you have to have a special program to do model planes with the Cricut?
What actually cuts the balsa?
I mean.... is it a tiny revolving bit like in a router machine?

How did you set the angle (degree) of the horizontal stabilator with the chord line of your symmetrical wing? Zero degrees +/-? I have always been curious about how other people do it with certain types of airfoils and models.