Toms Kite Building Site

building your own trickkite

The Frame

Step 6: Tensioning the tips and leech line

Step 7: Glueing the C-clips

Step 5: Glueing the ferrule in the 5PT-spar


1. Take the paper tape and cut a piece of it exactly as wide as the central-T.


2. Paste the piece of paper tape at 39 mm from the end of the ferrule. Check to see if both ends past the tape are the same length.


3. Take one of the Sky shark 5PT-spars and slide the ferrule about 15mm inside the 5PT-spar.


4. Put superglue on the ferrule and push it inside the spar right up to the paper tape. Hold the ferrule steady for 10 seconds to have it perfectly glued.


5. Remove the paper tape.