Centuri Flying Saucer #5325, Part 9, Gluing It All Together

Instead of putting a line of glue down the outside edges of the C braces, I applied some small glue dots on the inside of the core tube using a sharpened dowel.

The outside of the C braces were turned into the glue dots and the excess wiped clean with a Q-tip.

Here's where we're at -
Now onto the large ring at the bottom.









The inside "cogs" were also too tight, against the core tube distorting the shape.

This took some tight trimming, cutting off slivers from each of the interior glue points.



With the large ring in place, the outside overhangs the main shroud a little under 1/16"
I glued and inch and taped on either side of the glue area trying to keep the overhang even all the way around.



With the ring glued all the way around, a fine fillet was applied and smoothed with a fingertip.

There were some uneven areas. These were evened up with 220 grit on a sanding block followed with 400 grit.