chugach3dcomp
Registered User
anchorage, ak
Hello supercub.org
This is my first experimental build, was saving for a new fuselage when, well a used one came available. I thought well lets do this, I like a good challenge. So I got the fuselage, It appeared to be in good shape, with no major issues. After a quick inspection, off it went to get sand blasted. A few things showed up that I was already prepared for, D channels rusted and right side lower longeron has what looks like small pitting.
Now the real question, is it straight? I was super lucky in the fact that I was able to borrow a jig and my buddy has space at his house for me to work on it. So I headed out to pick the jig up and on the way back through with the help of a friend placed the fuselage in the jig. To my surprise stuff started to line up. Motor mount holes in, lower gear fittings in, left side wing fittings in, then well I would like to say the right side wing fittings lined up but they didn't, off by 3/16, crap. Then we checked the tail, a little high and long(appears the tail has been replaced before) but it has this slight turn to the right. Overall not bad.
Goal now is to make this fuselage fit, convert over to L21 since the D channels need removed, replace lower longerons from front to rear and add the necessary mods(its just time right lol).
I do have to say I appreciate this sight as there is a load of info(long time looker before I joined up).
Overall I think I will enjoy this process more as I will get a better understanding as to what goes into fixing a fuselage.
This is my first experimental build, was saving for a new fuselage when, well a used one came available. I thought well lets do this, I like a good challenge. So I got the fuselage, It appeared to be in good shape, with no major issues. After a quick inspection, off it went to get sand blasted. A few things showed up that I was already prepared for, D channels rusted and right side lower longeron has what looks like small pitting.
Now the real question, is it straight? I was super lucky in the fact that I was able to borrow a jig and my buddy has space at his house for me to work on it. So I headed out to pick the jig up and on the way back through with the help of a friend placed the fuselage in the jig. To my surprise stuff started to line up. Motor mount holes in, lower gear fittings in, left side wing fittings in, then well I would like to say the right side wing fittings lined up but they didn't, off by 3/16, crap. Then we checked the tail, a little high and long(appears the tail has been replaced before) but it has this slight turn to the right. Overall not bad.
Goal now is to make this fuselage fit, convert over to L21 since the D channels need removed, replace lower longerons from front to rear and add the necessary mods(its just time right lol).
I do have to say I appreciate this sight as there is a load of info(long time looker before I joined up).
Overall I think I will enjoy this process more as I will get a better understanding as to what goes into fixing a fuselage.