5219     The pic shows the clamping plates in position, and holding tight, the glued up support plate.  I was able to get the jaws of two strong clamps inside the fuse opening to hold everything together.  All glued up and clamped in place.

5220     I then used a couple of notch sanders to make notches to hold the three 1/16" sq forward fuse bottom stringers that were busted up and removed.  One of the three stringers is in place.

5225     New tissue is covered over all the damaged area - back ready to fly!!

     I just tried using bigger rubber and I reduced the number of rubber strands, on my 22" Cabinaire, with great results. Instead of 4 strands of 1/8" rubber, each strand 13" long (the prop hook to rear motor peg length on the plan was 13"), which gave consistent 25 second flights, I then instead went to 2 strands of 3/16" rubber, each strand 15" long. I could really stretch the rubber very far out from the nose, using a winding stooge, and wound in 55 winds on my 15:1 winder which equals 825 turns on the rubber motor, and got my record, much slower, beautiful turning flight of 48 seconds!! Then I got greedy and wound 70 turns on the winder for 1050 turns, and when I put the nose plug on - the Rubber Motor BLEW UP !!!      Tissue damage all over the rear end, and a big chunk (sitting on my glasses case), of the balsa forward fuse former, busted out, along with the three bottom fuse forward nose stringers busted !!  The rubber was a big wound knot in the back of the fuse - only the fuse tissue was ripped badly - no structural damage to the fuse frame. I could not even find the "S" hook from the rubber to the prop hook.