How to: Scarf Joints - Joining Bals sheets, End to End - Balsa Plane Building

[@Cess182sn]

I have learned so much from your build tips. My build skills have improved exponentially since subscribing to your channel. Thank you.

[@MarkRobinson555]

Glad to help, thank you very much for the comment

[@Rudy7408]

Really appreciate the instructional video's. Thanks!!

[@MarkRobinson555]

Glad you like them, thank you very much, appreciated

[@jacksnavely559]

This is the sort of process that BRINGS THE SCAP BIN TOO LIFE ❤

[@MarkRobinson555]

Hahaha, yes absolutely, thanks for the comment

[@thercbarn5001]

A general rule of thumb is 4 to 1 on a scarf. I like to use titebond type glues on sheeting. It's way more flexible and easily sands off. The same technique can be applied to stringers and when you have a repair to make. Nice video!

[@MarkRobinson555]

Thanks for the info, appreciate the comment

[@michaelbutton994]

Thanks Mark.

[@MarkRobinson555]

Your welcome!

[@terryblackman6217]

Nice one Mark. Cheers.

[@MarkRobinson555]

Glad you enjoyed it, thank you

[@garymurphy5133]

easier to lay the strips together ,then cut both at same time.angles are perfectly the same then

[@RichardTapp1]

Have you considered scarfing using the thickness instead of the width? In 1983 we flew gliders in the World Championships that used 1/64 ply wing skins, scarfed using the thickness, chamfered at 16:1 over 1/4". They never broke at the scarf. I haven't done it with balsa, but I don't see why it would be different, apart from it being more difficult to get a shallow chamfer in balsa.

[@MarkRobinson555]

Hi Richard, thanks for the comment and suggeston, I have never done it the way you suggest, really iteresting idea, although the cut may be a little tricky. Thanks

[@michaelbutton994]

Hi Mark, i have a question. When you built your Speedy Bee you fitted some shock absorbers to that model. I am building a lazy Bee and would like to fit shocks to that , but I can’t find any details of them and there loads of different ones out there. Could you possibly give me some details of what you used and where you brought them from. Thanks Mike..

[@MarkRobinson555]

Hi there, there is a huge array of choice, this is what I used www.ebay.co.uk/itm/165461433902?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=8Uss0w2RRKq&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=fsKLYgcjQ86&var=465015603765&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

[@ernestorusso2305]

Better to scarf on the thickness with 1:15 slope