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Forum: Individual Classifieds 02-02-2024, 10:15 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 840
Posted By sblack
Doesn’t tmtech still sell them?

Doesn’t tmtech still sell them?
Forum: Individual Classifieds 11-24-2023, 10:21 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 2,768
Posted By sblack
Damn that’s lovely and nicely priced and way too...

Damn that’s lovely and nicely priced and way too far away 😥
Forum: Individual Classifieds 11-21-2023, 02:43 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 2,351
Posted By sblack
Bad audio or you don’t understand his accent?

Bad audio or you don’t understand his accent?
Forum: Introductions 12-04-2022, 11:39 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 2,549
Posted By sblack
Darn wish I’d known about the workshop. When’s...

Darn wish I’d known about the workshop. When’s the next one? Will the schedule be posted on the tm website?
Forum: Software for Metalshaping 10-17-2021, 11:38 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 4,415
Posted By sblack
Google says this costs $29k!!! Oh well, it was...

Google says this costs $29k!!! Oh well, it was fun to dream….
Forum: General Discussion 05-29-2021, 09:08 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 2,973
Posted By sblack
Why not lube the sliding faces? :confused:

Why not lube the sliding faces? :confused:
Forum: Introductions 04-14-2020, 08:49 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 1,600
Posted By sblack
Welcome. I’m in Montreal but have made many trips...

Welcome. I’m in Montreal but have made many trips to ICT for flight testing airplanes built in Canada. I have many friends there. Always stop at Harbour Freight and the Yard Store! Sometimes I meet...
Forum: Basic questions and answers 01-24-2020, 12:03 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 5,256
Posted By sblack
yes I saw that but it seemed more like a brochure.

yes I saw that but it seemed more like a brochure.
Forum: Basic questions and answers 01-24-2020, 12:03 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 5,256
Posted By sblack
he sent it to me!

he sent it to me!
Forum: Basic questions and answers 01-23-2020, 12:28 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 5,256
Posted By sblack
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...
Forum: Welding Sheet Metal 01-06-2020, 12:18 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 9,995
Posted By sblack
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...
Forum: Welding Sheet Metal 12-30-2019, 02:22 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 9,995
Posted By sblack
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...
Forum: Welding Sheet Metal 12-30-2019, 11:52 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 9,995
Posted By sblack
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...
Forum: Automotive Projects 10-20-2019, 12:50 PM
Replies: 28
Views: 12,741
Posted By sblack
Talent, drive and patience and a good mentor. He...

Talent, drive and patience and a good mentor. He was bound to succeed.
Forum: Heads Up Announcements 08-25-2019, 08:29 AM
Replies: 49
Views: 53,638
Posted By sblack
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...
Forum: Metalshaping videos on-line 08-25-2019, 08:11 AM
Replies: 35
Views: 39,667
Posted By sblack
When Fay Butler makes a fender, he rolls it into...

When Fay Butler makes a fender, he rolls it into a barrel because it is easier to shriinnk on the yoder. When he is done hammering the part is all out of shape and he has to straighten it out. But he...
Forum: General Discussion 05-06-2019, 10:25 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 7,172
Posted By sblack
Apparently he travels all over the world,...

Apparently he travels all over the world, following hail storms like the natives followed the heards of buffalo hundreds of years ago :p
Forum: General Discussion 05-06-2019, 11:31 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 7,172
Posted By sblack
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...
Forum: General Discussion 04-29-2019, 11:10 AM
Replies: 61
Views: 48,848
Posted By sblack
I had no idea he was a professor. I just figured...

I had no idea he was a professor. I just figured he had been playing with airplanes his whole life. No wonder he stayed with airplanes - he had a reliable revenue stream :D. I'd love to meet him one...
Forum: General Discussion 04-18-2019, 11:27 AM
Replies: 61
Views: 48,848
Posted By sblack
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...
Forum: Automotive Projects 03-21-2019, 11:21 AM
Replies: 655
Views: 1,118,002
Posted By sblack
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...
Forum: Basic questions and answers 02-20-2019, 10:37 PM
Replies: 33
Views: 11,240
Posted By sblack
I like the bent file. Allows you to get into...

I like the bent file. Allows you to get into small areas. But it would hurt to take a torch to one of those files.
Forum: Basic questions and answers 02-19-2019, 04:16 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 3,719
Posted By sblack
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...
Forum: Basic questions and answers 02-18-2019, 08:30 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 3,719
Posted By sblack
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...
Forum: Basic questions and answers 02-05-2019, 05:35 PM
Replies: 25
Views: 5,902
Posted By sblack
why do welding lenses need to withstand steel...

why do welding lenses need to withstand steel balls dropped from 4 ft? :confused:

Are you supposed to be protected from gunfire too?? That would have been a very nice product. :(
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