Building An Airplane From Plans
In the shop we have:
I’ll have to take some notes next time I’m in the shop.
During the week Dan aligned the second hinge to the other angle and match drilled them. While this sounds easy is involves having all five hinge sections joined with their hinge pins in supporting the angle in the right position wile match drilling. This Brake design uses one of the angle pieces at the bending …
We had a six foot P3 stainless steel hinge to use on the 9′ brake. From the small brake on can see the middle will bow during a bend for a thicker material. We decided to place break the hinge up into sections. We put 2′ in the middle and on each side we have a 9″ …
Dan painted the angles and the welded up the handle from the square tubing. Dan has done some gas welding in the past and was getting back into it. I think the weld beads looked really good (for something that doesn’t have to fly). Fabricating Big Bend Part 3 Return To Tools or Return To Wings
We decided to make a David Clay bending brake for the rear spars, the ailerons and the flaps. The plans show the rear spars can be made in two peices, and joined together with a splice plate. They did this to keep one of the parts at eight feet long, perhaps to help with a …
We have a friend Gary in our flying club who is building an EVO Rocket. Sweet plane, checkout the EVO website. Gary’s fuselage is just out of the pictures. It was motinating to see his plane. The Rocket is a variation on the RV line which uses solid rivets. The Sonex spar uses solid rivets …
Looking at all the ribs to make and all the long cuts to do, Dan purchased an electric shear. The tool is wonderful, it eats .025 aluminum easily. There is some technique to using it, and it wastes ~1/4″ strip between the cuts. It makes life so much easier and you don’t get the scallops form …
I had ordered and received replacement crankshaft-connecting rod bearings. Dan and I took a couple hours to put the compressor back together. Dan had some STP type stuff to put in the bearings during assembly. We put the flapper plates back together, bolted it all together, filled it with oil, put the fly wheel on, and …. …
I bought a 60 gallon Craftsman air compressor off of craigslist last fall. It has great specs, 11.5 cfm at 90 psi. It is a 220v model. When we went to check it out we ran it and it was loud lout loud. A real clack clack clak… You can’t talk to someone next to you. I thought …
Dec 31, 2010 I took some time today to pick up some carriage bolts, nuts and washers and put our rolling 4’x12′ table on level feet so it made a better platform for assembly of the horizontal stablizer. I used scrap pieces of 2×4 and 2×6 about a foot long, drilled a 7/16″ hole in …
We made a variation of David Clay’s brake and reduced it to 48″ (due to the available materials at the local Menard’s store). A smaller brake is nice and a little less expensive than a full 96″ version. Most of the parts needed for the plane can be bent with this small of a brake …