Hi Jim
Hope your project has gone well? Do you have the glider wings fitted
yet? If so expect me in Michigan some time this year to beg a ride!
I used tungsten carbide grinding dust for the weight too. I went to a
local tool grinding shop and swept their grinder clean, mixed the dust
with epoxy and used that. Much heavier than lead shot, probably heavier
solid lead.
Graham
h&jeuropa wrote:
>
> Andrew,
>
> We did it per the book and had no difficulity. Drilling the lead is easy -
> use
a spade bit and low rpm on the drill. We probably shaped our weights wrong
(made them too small) and didn't need to remove much from the port one and to
balance the installed aileron trim in the stbd we had to add tungston carbide
to get enough weight since the supplied weight wasn't enough and lead balls
didn't
add enough weight in the space avaiable.
>
> BTW, lead balls are much less dense than solid lead.
>
> Jim & Heather Butcher
|