Top Flite TOPA0305 Part 2 - Manual (Page 23)

4-40 x 3/4" cap screws and washers accessible
from inside the bottom of the fuse (we use a long
Great Planes 3/32" Hexdriver Ball Wrench,
GPMR8002). Position the cabin top on the crutch.
Tape the cabin top to the fuse sides.
5. Make sure you have a CA applicator on your
medium CA bottle. A little section at a time,
simultaneously press the side of the cabin top
down and to the side and glue the cabin top to the
crutch with a small fillet of medium CA.
Do only a
small section at a time, making sure the crutch is
pressed down to the fuse main side stringer as you
glue. You should be able to reach all areas of the
crutch through the window cutouts. Since you pre-
primed the crutch with CA accelerator, you should
have to hold the parts together for only a few
seconds. Glue both sides of the cabin top to
the crutch.
Note: Do not build up a large fillet of CA between
the top of the crutch and the cabin sides. Be careful
not to glue the cabin sides or the crutch to the fuse
main side stringer. This should not be a problem if
you do not use too much CA.
6. Glue the cabin top to the front and aft cabin
formers. Hint: It will be easier to glue the cabin
formers to the cabin top
if you carefully place the
fuselage on its nose and on its tail cone.
7. Remove the cabin top and add medium CA to
areas you couldn't reach before. Fasten the cabin
top to the fuse and lightly sand the fuse to match
the cabin top.
8. Cut the front cabin former and the crutch to
accommodate the fuel tank.
FIT THE WIND0WS
Note: The windows are individually cut and glued
to the inside of the cabin top.
1. Cut each of the molded clear plastic windows
along the cutlines which are approximately 1/8"
outside of the raised edges. Sand the edges
smooth and even with 220-grit sandpaper. Use
care not to scratch the windows.
2. Fit the bottom of one of the windows in the
bottom of the matching window opening in the
cabin top. Observe how much the top, front and
aft edges of the window openings must be
trimmed
so the window will fit the rest of the way in.
Remove the window and use a rotary tool with a
sanding drum or sandpaper wrapped around a
dowel to enlarge only the top, front and aft edges
of the window opening until the window accurately
fits.
Do not trim the bottom edge of the window
cutouts so the windows remain in line.
3. Fit the rest of the windows the same way.
Beech Fact: Walter H. Beech and Olive Ann Mellor
first met at the Kansas based Travel Air Co. in the late
1920's. Thete, Walter served as president and Olive
was the office manager. They married in 1930. In
1932, with two other business associates, Walter and
Olive formed the Beech Aircraft Co., whose first plane
into production was the Model 17R negative-stagger
wing biplane which later became known as the Beech
Staggerwing.
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