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The 'What did you do in your workshop tonight?' thread

Snoopy1

Snoopy1

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AKNick said:
Been working on the 104NG after I plopped it. Thought I had more pictures but I’ll take some more of my progress later. I reverse engineered the landing block in CAD and laser cut it with my own rendition of birch ply with a carbon/red Kevlar bonded to it.

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The other thing taking up all my time is making all these medallions for a local race. This is the third year I’ve made these, obviously aug 2nd is really super close so I’ve been chomping at the bit.
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Sorry to see that it will take some time and patience to get that back in the air. One item I always find difficult and time consuming is fixing cowls.
 
AKNick

AKNick

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Snoopy1 said:
Sorry to see that it will take some time and patience to get that back in the air. One item I always find difficult and time consuming is fixing cowls.
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Thanks, yeah the part that's got me struggling is the formers that crunched as it's hard to make a template of splinters
 
AKNick

AKNick

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Here’s a couple photos of the gear block I recreated with birch ply laminated with red Kevlar Carbon weave along with some other pieces. The power of calipers, geometry, CAD, and a laser cutter. The 40W diode laser had no problem cutting this.
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AKNick

AKNick

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BalsaDust said:
Nice work. I have been looking into getting a diode laser.
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It’s been fun, just gotta make sure you have an enclosure and a strong extraction fan. This was 21hours of burning 3mm ply for the medallions I made. Been using 12”x20” sheets, altough it’s a limitation on building airframes, you just need to learn how to make puzzle or alignment joints in order to make a big section. This being the XTool S1, I liked the price and safety functions. If I had more coin I’d get a co2 laser. The XTool P2 is nice, but at that point I’d think an industrial laser would be about the same cost. This has been a good intro to lasers for me, but ultimately if one wanted to be more commercially ready I’d get the lightburn software with a non-desktop co2 laser.
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pawnshopmike

pawnshopmike

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Anyone still interested in nitro engines? I bought out a collection yesterday. I'll be listing them on ebay as time allows. Feel free to use the make offer option if you see something you like.

So far I have 4 of them posted. Keep checking my eBay items cause I'll be posting more as I get the time.

Saito FA-100 Golden Knight
https://www.ebay.com/itm/137590431140

OS Max BGX-1 35cc
https://www.ebay.com/itm/137590548308

OS Max 160
https://www.ebay.com/itm/137590611003

Vmax ABC .61
https://www.ebay.com/itm/137590292722
 
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