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David, You are still young, wait until you get a little older and your eyes start needing help seeing. Welding becomes a real chore when you start loosing your depth perception and additional light is required.
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The reflection in the first pic is the background in the second pic with the blue sticks on either side of the raw wood piece and the horizontal bands making the rest of the reflection.
just awesome. Thanks for the pics and words as inspiration and tutorial.
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I unfortunately have all the things you mention to look forward to in the not too distant future but I would like to pass on some skills before I go. David
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I made this section in three parts, rather than build another wheeling machine and buy an Echold. I dont know how it would be possible to create the swage (peak) in the wing if it was all made in one piece.
as I said before I put joints where the panel changes shape. I made it in manageable sized pieces, this enables me to wheel the shapes quickly, have a good finish on the panel and by welding in the way I do I do not have a massive amount of dressing out to do to metal finish the welds. My welds are placed where they will not distort the swage around the perimiter of the wing, infact there is very little distortion at all. David
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Next I marked out the possition of the side pieces. I marked them the same way as I showed earlier, then trimmed them with snips to my scribed line. David
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These were then welded in place using gas welding.
The only tools used to get the wing to this stage is a wheeling machine a scriber a ruler, (straight edge) snips, a cheap chinese shrinker and gas welding gear. I used my Pullmax for the swage around the perimeter, this is the most complex part of the wing. If your wings dont have this you would only need the tools I list above Notice the complete absence of shrinking marks, most of the areas that I shrank have been trimmed off. As I said earlier I put the weld far enough into the panel that the outer swage remains undistorted. It also allows for room to dress the weld without damaging the swage. I gradually added sections to build up the wing. One part at a time, the possition of each joint is carfully thought out and the sections used are all pre- planned to enable me to make the wing in an efficient way and get a good result. I use just an ordinary wheeling machine to make my parts I do not use and special tools or machines. I just do it the old fashioned way. It is possible to see how little distortion is caused in the photo above. The undercut will all but disapear when the weld is dressed. David.
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Very nice work David, I appreciate the time you spend documenting your work and sharing the results.
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Thanks Richard.
I forgot to say that the welds above are just as they were finished absolutely no dressing or smoothing has been done at all at this stage. David
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David, how did you make the front wing edge on this, I can't get my head around it, it curves and bends always, but also the swage line locks the shape in, so would be difficult to manipulate afterwards?
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