Its easy to put a battery into storage charge. Take your smoke stopper and drain the battery down faster then the chargers do. Use a battery alarm set to 3.6 -3.8 if yours is adjustable. Then top off back to storage capacity. Its easier to charge to storage then discharge.
The wing cuts look great btw. I take it that is the center piece that stays on the fuse in the pictures? Doesn't look like much sanding is / was needed either.
I hadn't thought of the smoke stopper to take it down quickly - great idea! Going down with a charger just takes forever... ugh.
And yep - this is the center panel. Just a tiny bit of sanding on the leading edge and one spot on the outside rib near the back where I got a little jumpy with the wire.
So on the order of operations conundrum, I think I'm going to try this order. And in the act of writing this up, I've discovered at least three items that needed to be moved around from the initial concept in my head, so yeah - this kind of planning is very important for a noob to big foam building.
- Glue plywood cross supports under the bottom of the ribs for the gear location and fuselage mount.
- Glue wood supports (dowels probably) directly connecting the plywood sheeting to the spar tube
- Apply fan-fold foam on the bottom around the plywood sheeting.
- Add some foam cross bracing and side cheeks to further spread the load from the plywood across the ribs
- install wiring tubes
- Create plywood bracing for fuselage side of wing mount, and install locating dowels & t-nuts between wing and fuselage mounting plates. Set aside, and glue mount bracket into fuselage later. Just build it now while it's easy to get everything to line up.
- Install plywood supports at top of wing over fuselage w/ direct wood bracing to the bottom plate around screw locations.
- Figure out landing gear mounting reinforcements if any?
- Apply top fan-fold foam sheeting.
- Use cutoffs from initial hot-wire work to create nacelles to wing curve, and build nacelles out of foam with a plywood firewall and one plywood former (replicating what J Morgan used with success on his Buffalo Brewster - awesome thread over here
https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/thumbgallery.php?t=2975568&do=threadgallery ) The wood spar connections from the firewall go a little bit past wood former. The Brewster suffered a couple breaks in the workshop before this was done to strengthen the area.
- Glue on nacelles. With such a long glue joint I don't think I will need any additional longitudinal reinforcements or attachments to the wing. Hope this statement doesn't come back to bite me
Appreciate any feedback or questions. If something doesn't make sense to any of you, I might not have thought it all the way through myself.