I've been wrestling with trying to get these 12' stringers (yeah I'm running them from the front of the passenger pit to the tail) of mine to lay in a straight level line. I spent hours making wood jigs to hold the stringers at a certain height and a certain distance from the fuselage.
After all those hours of work... they looked like 12' snakes. DAMN !!!
Spent an hour leveling the fuselage... then I figured that ain't gonna work because they start at one distance apart, in the front of the fuselage, and more or less converge at the tail. DAMN !!!
After scratching my head for a half hour an idea occured to me... LASER LEVEL !!! I had one, but it was only the point type. Went over to the Home Depot and picked up the Ryobi Airgrip ProCross Laser Level for $49.00. Don't... it's a POS. Took it back and picked up the $109.00 Bosch Self Level Cross-Line Laser. NICE !!!
Set that puppy up and within a half hour I had the first stringer jigged nice and level; within fractions of fractions.
All that jigging wasn't in vain... still needed them for the distance off the fuselage.
After all those hours of work... they looked like 12' snakes. DAMN !!!
Spent an hour leveling the fuselage... then I figured that ain't gonna work because they start at one distance apart, in the front of the fuselage, and more or less converge at the tail. DAMN !!!
After scratching my head for a half hour an idea occured to me... LASER LEVEL !!! I had one, but it was only the point type. Went over to the Home Depot and picked up the Ryobi Airgrip ProCross Laser Level for $49.00. Don't... it's a POS. Took it back and picked up the $109.00 Bosch Self Level Cross-Line Laser. NICE !!!
Set that puppy up and within a half hour I had the first stringer jigged nice and level; within fractions of fractions.
All that jigging wasn't in vain... still needed them for the distance off the fuselage.
