Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Custom Solar Explorer Build Part 11 Fin Gluing

While the instructions don't get into any detail about gluing the outside fins -
Alignment of the top of the "T" fins should be straight and centered.

The masked strip is your gluing surface for the outside fins.

Find the center again and draw a pencil line over the top of the leading and trailing edges of the smaller fins.



Run a thin line of glue down the outside edge of theCenter this pencil tick mark down the outside edge of the larger main fin.
I'm not sanding down the edge here!

I'm just using my sanding block as a flat surface to be sure the ends of the two pieces are even.

Press both pieces down on a flat surface and double check the pencil marks to be sure the parts haven't shifted during alignment.



As a final check, the back of my machine square was set in the corner joint to get the 90 degree angle.

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