Made good progress yesterday.
Three sides of fuselage glued, rubber band tube installed, wing spars glued in placed:
Glued cured all night looking like the above photo. Balsa blocks give it 1-1/2" High Dihedral for stability when flying. The 3 deg wing incidence allows it to fly nose down when in level flight.
Here is a closeup of the wing spar glue joint, it has been glued to the balsa support on the bottom, but the sides have not been glued until the top skins get applied:
Weights:
a) Wing Spars weigh 5.77gm each
b) Rubber Band Tube weighs 10.28gm, when rolling around 5/8" wood dowel last 30% gets sprayed with 3M 77 spray before final rolling.
c) Fuselage w/ 3-sides glued, rubber band tube installed weighs 39.65gm
d) Fuselage w/wing spars glued weighs 51.26gm
Will install rubber bands next, super glue the tail wheel spring wire and assembly to the fuselage bottom, then glue top of fuselage skins on. Tail section first then the top engine cowling.
Leaving the Canopy open, the next step will be to glue the wing skins to the fuselage.
After glue dry's the next step will be to add the horizontal stabilizer/elevator and rudder.
Will then do a final glue on the canopy before adding main landing gear.
A few steps left.
The rubber band tube for this size is a little short. Used the full length of an 11" x 17" size sheet of paper. Should be 1" longer, but did not want to roll a 24" x 36" sheet and then cut the correct length. One advantage is that the rear mount is 1" closer to the CG with means less counter weight is needed to balance.
Mike