Progress Update

[Ebby]

Your in for quite an adventure. Good building! I'm not done either but getting closer.

[tlandrum]

I have already had several people send me pictures of the EAA announcement... Congrats guy, you have built a beautiful bird! And I love how all my friends are surprised I already knew about your plane all the way over the pond! Great work, thanks!

[orchardair]

Just because I am back at it, I figured I'd post a picture of my latest welding session, the aileron idlers:

Welding again, after a long hiatus

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[HC85]

Good to see your still at it!

I noticed that you didn't open the ends up and you that you left an extended amount of length on the tubes...... I went ahead and burnt mine up on the first try ....cause I didn't do as you did! ... I did those a while back to learn how to weld... or .....how not to weld.

Nice work!

[HC85]

A couple shots ...my lower wings and aileron skin press. One more aileron to close and the lowers are done. Uppers already done, CTR section done. Fuse Next!

[orchardair]

Nice work!
I might make you an offer on your aileron skin press when you're done!
Just to show the end result of my aileron Idlers (pre paint).

[HC85]

Hey thanks!

I thought about bringing it to Brodhead this year and let some folks borrow it if they need to. It is not perfect, but did a good job for me. I used 2024 T-3 and liberal amounts of spray lube (WD-40) on the metal, after many practice sheets!

The sheet can get off kilter if ya don't pay attention, but that's half fun I guess. I have another friend who expressed interest in using it also. Maybe it could become a "pass-around tool"?

Your idlers are lookin good!

[orchardair]

Aileron brackets in 67 easy steps...

Start with enough material so that you don't burn edges when welding.

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Draw hole locations. Make sure you make mirror image parts.

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Drill pilot holes...

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Enlarge the holes with step drill bit. (Mark how deep you have to go!)

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Also mark the cutouts. (don't cut yet).

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(to be continued)

[orchardair]

Aileron brackets, continued...

Cut the large piece, add tubes, leave extra long for now.

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to be continued once welding has been done.

[HC85]

Sweet! ( I burnt the first set of mine up for those too! )