Thanks folks!
I've had another good day on the Triplane today, touching up where needed, and then working on the rigging.
I left it in the jig for most of it as there is virtually no strength to the top wing attachment and it would be very easy to pull it out of alignment with the rigging. The first job was to attach the centre wing drag wires and cabane rigging wires to the fuselage.
These were attached as usual by dipping the ends of the lines into thick CA and then slipping them into the predrilled holes. Once dry, they could be tensioned, the ends being held in place by small clothes pegs, and thin CA was carefully applied to the underside of the holes with a sharpened toothpick. My camera seems to have eaten that pic, too....
Once those had set, I repeated the process for the landing wires...
and from underneath
To do the flying wires I had to remove it from the jig. The same procedure though....
and it looks as though my measuring for the holes in the centre wing was pretty much spot on!
I was careful not to drill the wing straight through, perpendicular, but estimated the slope of the wires from the plans and drilled at the appropriate angle so the wires continued without a bend. It seems to have worked as both sets of landing and flying wires form a straight line with no kink through the centre wing.
Thanks for looking in!
Ian