PLAN ALERT
While waiting for my new wood to arrive so I could re-cut the dihedral braces, I decided to go ahead and make my templates to cut them from. I put mylar over the plans and traced out the dihedreal braces. After cutting out the templates from the mylar, I laid them onto the wing top plans. Surprise, they don't line up to the ribs on the wing plans!
The dihedral angles seemed to be OK, but the slots for the interlocking rib construction were off as much as 1/8" on 3 or 4 of the center ribs. Glad I cought this before recutting them with the new wood! The plans may have been corrected since my printing, but you want to make sure that the rib spacing on your dihedral braces match that of the wing plan.
By the way, the error in the drawings for the braces were not the same errors that were made in the laser-cutting, and were not nearly as bad.
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