Original Posted By: bobby
I studied mu plans for hours and hour, over weeks and weeks. Finally Ijust ordered a wood kit from Western Aircraft. Three weeks later I tookdelivery of 2 shipping tubes containing the most beautiful, sweetestsmelling aircraft quality "wood list" there is. Haven't given a momentsweek stated "electric and hand staplers are to brutal on wood unless youuse wire staples" Wire staples are exactly what you want to use.Craftsman 1/4 wire staples from Sears with my Arrow JT-21 stapler arefast and accurate. they don't splinter cap strips. He also had a longprocess for nailing gussets. steaming one capstrip at a time and leavingrib in jig overnight. make your bending jig wide enough for at least 3cap strips. (2X4 works fine) You are ahead on pre-bent capstrips. Oneugly rainy day last Nov.,using squeeze bottles for epoxy, medicine cupsfor mixing, and staple gun, I knocked out 4 ribs in one day. I couldhave built 5 but I took ill. actually I was just sick of building ribs.Leon S.________________________________________________________________________________