20 January 2025
Superglue and sewing thread are easily available and can be used for many purposes:
- Coiled around wire, it can be used as a wheel stopper, substituting soldering of a washer.
- Coiled around a plastic tube, as a thrust button. To get bigger flange area, coil against a card disc and superglue them together.
- Stretch and glued to a balsa frame, it increases rigidity, akin to the internal wire bracings of early aircraft fuselages.
- Of course it can be used as bracing wires for biplanes and such, but I read that 2# fishing lead is better.
- Fake springs, antennae etc.
- In a light wing, glue sewing thread to tie in the root's leading edge to the tip's trailing edge and from the root's trailing edge to the tip's leading edge and we get less warp. Similarly, you can do it to the tail surfaces but I don't think that's necessary.
- Provide some support to tissue. A length or two on the wing between the leading edge and the spar before tissue covering. Also as stringers to curve sectioned fuselage to support the tissue and to generally make it look more sophisticated and complex when seen through translucent tissue but without actually doing much work.
- Strengthen the root rib by adding a straight length to the root rib.
- Tie up wire to balsa for a light and strong joint. Examples: wire landing gear onto balsa spar.
I'm sure there are other solutions that can be imagined.
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