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Forum: Individual Classifieds
11-24-2023, 10:21 AM
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Forum: Individual Classifieds
11-21-2023, 02:43 PM
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Forum: Introductions
12-04-2022, 11:39 PM
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Forum: Software for Metalshaping
10-17-2021, 11:38 AM
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Replies: 7
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Forum: General Discussion
05-29-2021, 09:08 PM
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Replies: 3
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Forum: Introductions
04-14-2020, 08:49 PM
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Replies: 6
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Forum: Basic questions and answers
01-24-2020, 12:03 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 5,278
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Forum: Basic questions and answers
01-24-2020, 12:03 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 5,278
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Forum: Basic questions and answers
01-23-2020, 12:28 PM
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Replies: 10
Views: 5,278
Rotex turret punch press lower die removal
I just bought a rotex turret punch and some of the dies are a bit chowdered up. I have removed top dies but I'll be darned if I can figure out how to remove the bottom ones. There are 2 allen head...
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Forum: Welding Sheet Metal
01-06-2020, 12:18 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 10,056
Thanks Kent. I was sure based on your writings...
Thanks Kent. I was sure based on your writings that the flange weld design was not the issue. Given that there are many bushby mustangs flying without any problem and that the tank was supplied by...
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Forum: Welding Sheet Metal
12-30-2019, 02:22 PM
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Replies: 19
Views: 10,056
I recall kne of the tanks on an old classic...
I recall kne of the tanks on an old classic sports car had a lot of detail embossed on the flatter section to stiffen it. Sounds similar to what you are talking about although this tank was riveted...
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Forum: Welding Sheet Metal
12-30-2019, 11:52 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 10,056
A friend bought a fuel tank for his bushby...
A friend bought a fuel tank for his bushby mustang II homebuilt airplane from the designer. It was 6061t6, probably .040 or 0.050. It was made in the traditional way with the ends pounded over a form...
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Forum: Automotive Projects
10-20-2019, 12:50 PM
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Replies: 28
Views: 12,778
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Forum: Heads Up Announcements
08-25-2019, 08:29 AM
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Replies: 49
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I built my own wheel frame and found a "great...
I built my own wheel frame and found a "great deall" on anvils on ebay. Of course the were crap and didn't work. The top. wheel was a cast iron castor with a about 1/16" of play. I bit the bullet and...
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Forum: Metalshaping videos on-line
08-25-2019, 08:11 AM
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Replies: 35
Views: 39,801
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Forum: General Discussion
05-06-2019, 10:25 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 7,190
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Forum: General Discussion
05-06-2019, 11:31 AM
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Replies: 4
Views: 7,190
Paintless dent repair on an airplane cowl
A guy in my friends hangar whacked his plane into another one while pulling it out. Cessna cowls are thin hard aluminum, likely 2024t3 but I'm guessing, and if you try to planish them the tools jus...
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Forum: General Discussion
04-29-2019, 11:10 AM
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Replies: 61
Views: 48,945
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Forum: General Discussion
04-18-2019, 11:27 AM
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Replies: 61
Views: 48,945
Love the staggerwing. looks like the wingroot...
Love the staggerwing. looks like the wingroot where it flows into the fairing for the retracted wheel. That is one helluva big panel to get to lie down everywhere! Did that start life as one piece...
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Forum: Automotive Projects
03-21-2019, 11:21 AM
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Replies: 655
Views: 1,413,825
I'm building a plane. Well, finishing a project...
I'm building a plane. Well, finishing a project that somebody else started. I just had to hang an engine and put instruments in, and finish up a few things. 6 months at most. That was in 2014. And I...
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Forum: Basic questions and answers
02-20-2019, 10:37 PM
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Replies: 33
Views: 11,311
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Forum: Basic questions and answers
02-19-2019, 04:16 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 3,739
These things are quite deceiving. All the...
These things are quite deceiving. All the aforementioned airplanes were low wing, low drag monoplanes with retractable landing gear. We look at the outlines and shapes and we tend to think that these...
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Forum: Basic questions and answers
02-18-2019, 08:30 PM
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Replies: 15
Views: 3,739
maybe designed, but the resources necessary to...
maybe designed, but the resources necessary to test them and work out the kinks didn't come until governments, spurred on by fears of being over taken, allocated the huge resources needed to make...
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Forum: Basic questions and answers
02-05-2019, 05:35 PM
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Replies: 25
Views: 5,930
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