Thursday, June 4, 2020

Estes Doorknob, #9720 Build, Part 7, Engine Mount & Fin Gluing


The top engine mount centering ring got a glue fillet applied drop-by-drop using two Q-tips taped to a dowel.

Place a drop of glue onto the Q-tip, set the drop of glue onto the centering ring/body tube joint and smooth the glue with the Q-tip.




On the left is the first dry fitting of the fin. Notice the slight gap at the root edge.


On the right is the same fin after fitting to remove the gap.


The root edge tabs needed a very slight sanding to shorten them.
It didn't take much sanding. There were two root edge surfaces that needed a small reduction.






All four fins are glued in place.

You can see the the wood glue fillet around the lowest centering ring joint.

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