Thursday, March 7, 2013

Warped! Part 4 Tube Joining



Stacked up, here's the body tube segments.
The tops and bottoms of the segments were numbered 1, 2 and 3 on one side and
A, B, C on the other.

Notice the bottom segment is longer, that will hold the engine mount.





The engine mount was glued in the lower, longest segment.
The engine block is pretty close to the top of the angled tube.

Normally I'd use Kevlar through the top of the mount centering ring.
I was concerned about the Kevlar line hitting the tubes and possibly breaking a glue joint at ejection.

Later, I'll add a tri-fold mount with an elastic shock cord.

Starting from the bottom and working up, the first segment was glued in place.

The joint was rolled over and smoothed a bit with the back end of a Sharpie barrel.

Only glue the first segment on for now, you'll have to go inside and reinforce the joint.

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