On 26 June, 18:39, "Tim Mara" wrote:
really pretty straight forward and typical...though the wings are a bit
heavy...I did it once with a diamant with no one around to show me anything
special about it, with a very unskilled helper I had it together in about 30
minutes...and this was the first attempt....just line things up and they go
together like any other glider (better than many!) but it is heavy..
tim

"Spam" wrote in message

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A friend of mine is considering buying a diamant. *He was told it's
very hard to rig. *He's not a member of this group so I am asking for
him.

Anyone ever tried to assemble one? Or dis-assemble one?

In the early 80s I used to regularly one man rig a Diamant 18 with no
problem. The wing was a lot lighter than a Kestrel 19 I had later. I
used 2 wooden tip trestles and a low wing root trestle. The wings had
dollies attached to the roots and were stowed root first in the non-
lift-top trailer. Position the tip dollies then pull wings out and
set the tips leading edge down an the trestles. Lift and rotate the
wingroot level onto the root trestle - remove root dolly and feed the
spar stub in. I have used essentially the same method on every glider
since - except when I was in a Duo syndicate and had a Cobra trailer
which was much more inconvenient for rigging.

John Galloway