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StephenLawson · 4 February 2009, 01:40 AM

Thanks all for your kind words. Jay good eye! It was the first thing I had to attend to. The struts are in place and curing up.

The joy of using brass is logevity and if the build is damaged usually the struts can be reused as well. The key is removing the old glue and in most cases (for dried superglue) a dull edged drill bit chucked into your motor tool will clean the tips and the strut socket out.

Case in point after I stripped the interplane and cabane struts and drilled out the sockets again it took about 47 minutes to re-attach them and was able to keep the wing true. more later.

4 February 2009, 01:40 AM	#10 (permalink)
StephenLawson Shot Down Join Date: Dec 2001 Posts: 9,778	Thanks all for your kind words. Jay good eye! It was the first thing I had to attend to. The struts are in place and curing up. The joy of using brass is logevity and if the build is damaged usually the struts can be reused as well. The key is removing the old glue and in most cases (for dried superglue) a dull edged drill bit chucked into your motor tool will clean the tips and the strut socket out. Case in point after I stripped the interplane and cabane struts and drilled out the sockets again it took about 47 minutes to re-attach them and was able to keep the wing true. more later. Last edited by StephenLawson; 4 February 2009 at 01:57 AM.