Glueing sheeting?

The fuselage of the deagostini spitfire I am building is fully sheeted in balsa. I am finding it a real slow process due to using normal white wood glue, I glue a section on then tape and clamp it down, I then have to wait a couple of hours for it to dry before I can do anything more to it.

I did try some evostick contact adhesive but the missus wasn't pleased at me stinking the whole house out!!!!!

Is there any good, quicker, non smelly ways of sheeting the fuse? Or do I go into the garage and use the evostick?

Dean

i use super glue.
stick the edge.
then run the glue down the formers and hold the balsa in place for 20 secs.

Cheers Eric.

So would I wood glue the middle part and put spots of super glue on the edges to keep it held down until the wood glue drys?

Dean

So do you just superglue the whole lot then tony?

Hopefully this should speed up the build!

dean

i do yes.
depends how flexible the balsa is.
if you stick a bit and then pull it away from the fuselage enough to dribble the glue down the formers so it runs down the wood.
you can then just hold the wood flat against the formers and bobs ya uncle.

Thanks every one, hopefully I will speed up a bit now


Dean

I would be reluctant to onlt use CA, as said it is brittle, and comes apart in a high G arrival. The main problem then is that you need to take apart a lot more of the undamaged part to reglue the joints.

I recently dropped a helicopter onto a completed wing that had been stuck with CA, the wood didn't break, but a huge amount of joints need redoing. Same thing on the webbit, lots of the fuselage come undone without much damage to the wood.

It is really more a time planning problem, organising the assembly so that there is always something else to do or glue.

I like gorilla glue on sheeting, as it foams it forms a fillet, and spreads the load a bit onto a wider area of sheeting, and as stated it has a bit of give in it