Bantam Biplane

By gzumwalt

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1) Cut the parts. This part is easy. Start by loading two sheets of .3mm card stock stacked one upon the other into the engraver. The top sheet will be the cut parts, and the bottom sheet will protect the engraver bed. Follow the mini laser engraver instructions on how to focus the laser. I've include two .BMP "bitmap" images, each being 512 pixels wide by 512 pixels tall, the exact size required by the engraver. The first bitmap outlines the biplanes fuselage, lower wing, upper wing, two struts and the propeller (top to bottom, left to right in the bitmap). The second outlines the horizontal stabilizer and two landing gear (left to right in the bitmap). These images bring back memories of the Tetris, Robocop, Predator, Microscopic Mission, Michael Jordan in Flight, and a number of other "pixelated" video game designs from my earlier days. Sigh... Anyway, I digress. Load either of the two bitmaps into the engraver software (I recommend starting with the stabilizer / landing gear to test the settings of the engraver). Set the "burning time" to 110, press the "Send Image To Machine" button, and when complete, press the "Start" button. When the burning is finished, don't move the card stock, just press "Start" again and allow the machine to finish burning a second time. When the second burning is complete, carefully, without moving the card stock, attempt to remove a part from the card stock, and if it's still not completely cut, press the "Start" button again. The parts I burned always came free after the third burn. Repeat this process for the remaining bitmap. 2) Assemble the biplane. Take the lower wing (the wing having 4 slots cut in it) and slide it into the long slot at the front of the fuselage. Center and level the wing, then using a straight pin or other very fine tipped tool, apply very small dots of thick cyanoacrylate glue to hold the wing in position. Install the wing struts into the lower wing by sliding the tabs on the struts into the outermost slots of the lower wing. Carefully align the struts, then glue in place as before. Install the upper wing to the struts by sliding the remaining strut tabs into the upper wing slots, then glue in place. Install the horizontal stabilizer into the fuselage by sliding it into the short slot at the rear of the fuselage. Center and level the horizontal stabilizer then glue in place. Install the landing gear into the two inner most slots in the lower wing and glue in place. Finally, attach the propeller to the front of the fuselage and glue it in place. That's it, hope you like Bantam Biplane! Oh, and guess what will be cut next...
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