Pete's Projects
Pete's Ro - Tate - Me Fuselage Jig with 3 pair of former supports
Item 13. Price $70.00 Weight
• You supply the 19mm aluminium tubing to suit your model length.
• Can run through the centre of the fuselage, giving you full 360deg. access
• Smaller fuselages can be built on top of main rail.
• Former supports can be mixed and matched in size to suit your need.
• Former supports can be fitted above and below the main rail, if required.
• Other building supports can be used at will.
• Fuselage can be remove still attached to the main jig body, and re mounted at will.
• 19mm cross rails can be fitted with the optional "cross rail coupler"
This jig is quite different, the Ro-Tate-Me can be used in two ways.
1. The aluminium tube runs down the inside of the fuselage, exiting at the nose and tail. you effectively build the fuselage around the jig. (the jig becomes the centre line of the model)
This approach is ideal for working on more rounded, streamlines fuselages (spitfires, Hurricanes, scale gliders etc. Using the former supports as shown in picture 1. both above and below the tube.
As the fuselage can be fully rotated, you can complete quite a lot of the construction, while everything is held in alignment.
2. You can build the fuselage on top of the tube, suing the former supports as shown in picture 2&3. you still have the ability to rotate the fuselage so you can work on top, and both sides, only the bottom will have limited access.
Picture 4 shows an optional cross rail.
The idea of this handy little bracket is that you can fit any number of these across the jig, as a tempory support or alignment aid during construction. For aligning / holding the wing mounting tubes, tailplane mounting etc.
They can be whatever size suits your model, and you can also attach additional cross rails to themselves, say in a vertical position using the same brackets.
A Pair of these set vertically, would be an ideal aid for supporting the wing while checking mounting / alignment.
The jig comes with a "little Tail" only 12mm in diameter, along with a set of matching bearings. This can new used at the tail end if the 19mm square tube is going to be to large.
You leave all former supports in place as long as possible, only removing them as needed to complete the fuselage.
