Your
hor. stab is almost finished, but not quite. Something has to be done to
stiffen up those floppy balance tabs hanging off the front of the hor. stab.
I use bamboo skewers, you can also use a couple of pieces of
1/16" music wire in each flute. Installation is the same, only the
material is different. Find a good sharp bamboo skewer, and chuck up
the dull end in your drill. Now, very carefully, starting at the trailing
edge, drill the skewer all the way through to the leading edge. Like
so:
Cut off the excess, and repeat for the other half. The
hor. stab is done.
Next cut out the rudder, with the flutes
running from front to back, to allow you to install giant hinge points into the
flutes, like so. Be sure not to install the center hinge in such a position
that it interfereres with the hor. stab doubler, or the hor. stab. I moved
mine up a couple of flutes to avoid this. I use goop to hold the giant
scale robarts hinge points into the flute.
Locate the hor. stab dowel
in the fuselage, and cut a slot out, from the trailing edge, forward 6" just
above the dowel inside the fuse, and just wide enough for the hor. stab to slide
in place.
Now, i made a mistake
here, but its not a bad one. I should have just temporarily attatched the
rear dowel, so it could be removed to install the hor. stab. I didn't,
you can. Just put a couple of drops of ca on that piece of dowel,
then remove it when its time to attatch the hor. stab.
Now, slide
the hor. stab in to the front of the slot, get it all lined up. It helps
to prep the coro around the center of the hor. stab so it'll take ca better.
Temporarily glue it in place with a few drops of ca, and use kicker to
freeze it in place.
Next, cut a couple of piece of pvc L brackets
to fit the hor. stab. Prep the fuse below the hor. stab, and then glue the
L brackets in place, as shown, making sure to get the hor. stab perpendicular to
the fuse, like this. The pvc brackets are glued to the bottom half of the
elevator, this helps hide them from view, they can also be screwed through the
doubler, into each other, if you so desire. I've done several this way,
with no problems.
