StarGate Atlantis Wraith Dart - Feb 17 2008

 

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Refinement on the puttying. Smaller and smaller amounts are being used now

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Well I knew from way back that the body was not straight. The use of the backbone that was not rigid enough was the cause of this. Since the body was getting to the refinement stage I thought this was the time to fix this problem

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Start off with breaking the body in the locations that there is a problem

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The front tip was also out of alignment

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I started with a hack saw to try and remove the material needed to fix the body warp

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Then I tried the dremel tool with drum grinder and finally used my disc sander

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The amount of offset

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The 2 pieces that are to be glued back together

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The nose section I will worry about later as this will need quite a bit of reinforcement