BILLY BOYS’ WORKSHOP

Taranaki Daily News, 1 June 1935, Page 21 (Supplement)

BILLY BOYS’ WORKSHOP

A BOX KITE, BY SPECIAL REQUEST. The Special request item this week is a siitple box kite, which you can , easily make from a few lengths of stripwood, and four sheets of coloured paper twenty-four inches 1 long and fourteen inches wide. From some three-sixteenths-inch square stripwood cut four pieces twentytwo inches long, for the corner stiffening strips. Now take the four sheets of coloured paper, which must be cut exactly to the sizes ’mentioned, and stick them together with strong glue, -allowing an overlap of one and a half inches, as shown in the lower diagram. Then turn over a one-and-a-half inch fold at the top and bottom, and. also on one side, and glue these down. Measuring from the edge of this folded side,; mark’the positions of the wood ' strips ' along fhetop and bottom folds of‘the paper. Glue’ one of, the square sticks to the

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paper, level with the folded edge,, as shown \at A, with the, ends projecting evenly..... Glue the. other sticks. ?in ,place,, and see that they .are parallel to each other with the ’ centres twelve incites in the diagram. • When! the- glue'h^s : set, stick the end, C; of the paper to the back of the other end of the, papeir at B, so that the sticks are on the inside.;/'■ . -•- . ' ! For the .cross-struts, D, cut four six-; teen-ahd-a-hatlf-inch , lengths of ftye-six-teenths by one-eighth-inch stripwood,: pldce two of them. -together and,drive ai fine wire nail through the centre, turn-i ing up Hie end..of. the nail underneath. Treat the other two pieces in the same way. 'Notch the ends as at-E, open out the struts, and fit them inside the kite as shown in/the first diagram,-,. Fit the other cross-struts in the. .other end, but not let them fit too tightly.'or the pressure will tear the paper. .If too tight, cut the notches a little deeper. Securely tie a piece of strong thin string to the top end of one of the sticks to form a loop, F, to which the flying line is to be attached. . 7 ~ : The Hut Carpenter..