Original Posted By: dean dayton
My fuselage is steel, and glued together with welding rod...but the wing ribs are glued and gusseted with t-88.I didn't even bother to glue the ribs together with butt joints, just nails, and gussets.I depend on gussets alone for strength. As for the butts, they are coated with varnish.ocb>From: Richard DeCosta >Reply-To: Pietenpol Discussion >To: Pietenpol Discussion >Subject: on butt-joints, sanding, and banging your head against the wall>Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 05:34:17 -0700 (PDT)>>Ok, I think it was Walt who mentioned that you "use clean cuts and>never sand", refering to the places to be glued. Well, just about every>joint in my fuselage is sanded since my rough cuts never come out to an>exact fit, so I sanded them to make an exact fit. Nice & shiney they>were, as I recall. Now I guess I'm relying entirely on the gusets for>strength. At least I went ahead and scuffed the surface of all my fuse>gussets. I just wish there was a way to test the strenth of my fuse,>like I'm going to do with the 4 extra wing ribs I made. Can't exactly>make an extra fuse for destructive testing.>>This is very frustrating. Thanks all for your support.>>Richard>===>http://www.AirCamper.org/w3builder>>___ ... __________