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How to: A Simple Float Jig
Jessie_C
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Posted: Friday, December 07, 2012 - 01:11 PM UTC
How do you get those floats to stay square while the glue dries? How do you get all those struts to stay where they''re supposed to? Richard Tonge shows us how to build a simple little jig to keep your floats from coming adrift.

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If you have comments or questions please post them here.

Thanks!
JackFlash
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Colorado, United States
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Posted: Friday, December 07, 2012 - 06:23 PM UTC
Nicely done! This build was featured in the kit review here.
Jose_Barbosa
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Posted: Friday, December 07, 2012 - 09:19 PM UTC
Wonderfull work! Congratulations.
GhostHawk
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Cordoba, Argentina
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Posted: Friday, December 07, 2012 - 10:49 PM UTC
Cool, Keep teaching...!!!
tinbanger
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Posted: Saturday, December 08, 2012 - 12:54 AM UTC
Thank you all.
tinbanger
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Posted: Saturday, December 08, 2012 - 01:01 AM UTC
It took longer for me to write the feature than to build the jig LOL! A big thankyou goes out to Jessica for all the work on the final layout of the feature.
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Posted: Saturday, December 08, 2012 - 08:16 AM UTC
Hi Richard

That is excellent! I'll definitely remember the article for my next floatplane. I wish I'd had it to refer to when tackling Azur's Latecoere 298 - I made a balsa jig for that, but still had trouble. Your method is much more precise.

All the best

Rowan
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