Autor: Jan Hascher

Having finished the corner bracings I moved on to the planking. This was pretty straight forward. I included an offset of 0.1mm as I am planning to use 160gr/m² cardboard for this. My experience for these parts is that the neutral fibre is roughly in the middle for the larger curvatures. Thickness for this material is about 0.2mm. For the root rib I could have used an 0.2mm offset. However ther difference is marginal and the final piece will need a little bit of trimming anyway.

Designing with fully coloured cardboard in mind gives new perspectives. I don’t have to pay that much attention to details. Parts like the planking can be designed a bit larger and then trimmed afterwards. Howver I am aiming to get it perfect 🙂

 

Remember Pinky and Brain? „What are we going to do tomorrow night, Brain?“

Well, today I finished the last corner enforcement, narf, tedious job.

Alexander included my report in his section „Bauberichte“.

Thanks Alexander!

Make sure to check out his website, loads of stuff about primary gliders there. Not just the SG-38.

I added all the corner bracings. I guess this process is done „on the fly“ in reality. No one will cut these chips according to any drawings. Theese small wood chips (well, card chips) are backed uo by additonal struts which run parallel to the ribs. Pretty straight forward:

I designed these two elements according to the drawings and positioned them according to the drawings, and….bam, doesn’t fit:

Problem is, the diagonal struts collide with the upper and lower strips of the bracing wall. And looking closer at the drawings I found that they cannot fit as the strips all run at basically the same height. I wouldn’t be surprised if each and every builder of the SG-38 ran into this problem. The solution is either quick and dirty -> forcing the struts under the strips and thus compomising in stability, or having to rebuild the bracing wall completely. One third solution is possible: The drawings I have are rather foggy from the copying process. So I might have misinterpreted some of the dimensions.

Anyway I redesigned both walls and stretching everything a bit and I was able to sufficiently squeese in the diagonals:

The opening that is visible in the wall is for the aileron control lines.

Man, this is tedious. At first they looked like simple 1x1mm struts, easy to attach. However each of them is a bit different. And putting this into a building instruction is a nightmare.

I will probably just cut the stock itself to be cut to fit.

Next (well honestly the first) problem I ran into are the two lengthwise bracing walls. These were obviously added afterwards. See next post.

Thinking about making the fittings, hinges, rolls and everything made me look for sources of allready available parts.

I came across a supplier for large garden railways:

http://www.knupfer-grossbahn.de/

The offer a wide variety of norm parts, especially very small screws. Finding these I decided to use real screws instead of fake ones. I also found appropriate rolls that can be used for the control lines. Some parts may be used for making hinges and connectors. The even have steel wire starting at 0.3mm. Mmmhhh, am I going to make functional controls. Yes it is a bit overdone….on the other hand worth a try 🙂

I recently added the aileron spar without having any trouble. Although the drawings are almost 100 years old and do not contain any tolerances the parts simply slip into place. We will see if this will change.

Next step will be the wing tip…