at's how all of mine were done and they are perfect.
Gavin
Australia
P.S I'm a metal worke not a wood worker.
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Subject: KR> Tapering Outboard Spars
> Would-be-builders, don't despair, it is not
Gavin said:
"I can't understand what all the fuss is about !! It's just a case of using
basic hand tools. Go back to basics and mark out all of your spar dimensions
and get a good quality hand plane. You'll be surprised how quickly the
excess material can be planed away, and accurately too.
That's
Why go to all that trouble anyway?
If you build the spars as per Dan Diehl instructions, at
http://www.diehlaero.com/
Dan does not taper the spars both ways, he leaves the spars 2" Wide or ( 1
15/16" I've forgotten already) all the way to the tips, this gives a much
larger area for the skins or gl
Would-be-builders, don't despair, it is not necessary to spend a lot of
money on saw blades or table saw. When I built my KR2 airframe in about
1974 I did not have a table saw. I built what amounted to a small box
out of particle board, screwed a used Skil circular saw to the inside of
what would
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