> I also found my top half apparently shorter than the bottom half by about
> 1/2" giving poor overlap at the rising part ahead of the tail section.
> Fixing a temporary protruding bolt on forward bit of the fin root enabled
> a rope to be placed round it and then round the back of the lower half.
> Winding this loop up removed most of the difference and ensured the fit
> was pretty tight even before the operation started.
>
> gemin no.83
>
Only an interested observer (at the moment) but do you mean that you
streched one half to meet the other and then bonded them? Wouldn't
this leave an awful lot of stress in the structure? Perhaps I
misunderstood what you wrote?
Simon
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