Fernando

On the cozybuilders email list Nat is quoted as saying the longeron material is not terribly important, it is a core to put bolts through and screw stuff to. for the removable fus top the plans say you can use clear pine for the required doubler, (crivens!). Hoop pine for me.

Do I have to make a Load Test on the longerons to make sure that they are strong enough? How can I know that the longerons are really good ones?, becouse wood use to be inestable on its shapes and sometimes the wood hides invisibles failures...

I think any dry, straight hardwood would be OK. Birch plywood is nice because it's made of thin (1/16"?) laminates , relatively dense, and not prone to warping but not absolutely necessary, IMHO.

 

Que pais, amigo?

Can I use another kind of wood for the longerons and triangle parts? Do I have to use only Birch Plywood? I coudn´t get any birch in my country!

Are that Birch longeros or are you using another kind of wood?

Thanks, Boys!

All of the plans are available on the RAF encyclopedia (TERF-CD). The only problem is that they are not to scale. There are however ways to scale the drawings.

How can I print the Roncz canard templtes to scale from the TerfCD´s file? Do you know the ecxactly size of the paper sheet to use for that?

Will be some day an open solitaire? Where can I get the templates?

thanks! But I think I will purchase the canard from Eureka.

Oh! yes i know now!! it´s the optional high performance canard alone in that little .pdf. file... I havn´t read that yet! I´m so sorry for my ignorance!

who´s selling the Roncz Canard plans and instruction? can we get them for free?

hey! waqtch at this

Thank you all of you for your helpfull aswers. I have known a Brazilian Pilot who builded a great bow using Kevlar, he is going to send me some photos and some kind of instruction manual for its construction, he thinks I can adapt the bow for the LEZ and the kevlar save a littl bit of weight... I will upload the photos when I get them. Thanks Again!!! I´m really larning a lot from you.

Hello everyone!!!... After a very long wait for my Terf CD I finally get it today. (it took like 2 month to arrived to Argentina). I have started my reading process and a lot of cuestions are rounding and kicking my head... In chap. 9 the plans say "The main gear strut is a one piece, airfoil shaped "S" glass molded part available through a Vari Eze distribuitor..."

This are my cuestions:

* Can I build the main gear shaping the airfoil by myself?

* how can I get the strut if i coudn´t build it?

I have seen in the cozybuilders, i think, that they build a foam airfoil and they layup it several times. Have I seen well?

Help me please, I´m very lonely here in Argentina!!!

thanks

Fernando Mendiolar