Here's a weird paint mask to give your a better glue bond on the root edges of the vanes.
The engine mount is not glued in place yet. Slide it in and you can use the fins to place four of the tape strips. The other strips are simply centered between those.
The mount is taped into the tube. The tube is masked and the engine mount tube sprayed black.
On the right - The masking strips are removed.
This mask doesn't have to be very clean, the vanes will cover up any rough edges.
I wasn't getting a good fit of the root edge against the mount. I realized the glue fillet was in the way! I slightly rounded off the corner and got a better fit.
I glued on every other vane and centered the remaining pieces.
Notice the masking tape wrap around the black coupler. The fit in the main tube was pretty loose.
What glue did you use to attach the vanes?
ReplyDeleteHi Rraeford,
DeleteI was able to use white glue because the tube glue lines didn't have any paint on them after the weird mask.