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

[BalsaDust]

Yup cub cadet. Not mine though. A buddy loaned it to me. As long as the garden goes well this year I will be buying one in the off season.

 

[mndless]

Started work on the Hostetler Cessna 182.... The laser cut kit came with these plywood formers... they are nice for getting started, but I am finding them difficult to work with for maintaining alignment. Going to have to take a step back and figure out a way to keep this fuse straight.

 

[pawnshopmike]

Started work on the Hostetler Cessna 182.... The laser cut kit came with these plywood formers... they are nice for getting started, but I am finding them difficult to work with for maintaining alignment. Going to have to take a step back and figure out a way to keep this fuse straight.



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What if you square up and line up the formers on a sheet of plywood. Then glue them onto the plywood? That would hold the formers rock steady and fully aligned while building the fuse.

 

[3Dchief]

Because all those formers are square and the same width (or look that way in the pictures at least), you could clamp a piece of angle iron to the bench on both sides to hold them square. Hard to describe in words, but two pieces of angle parallel to each other the length of the fuselage and pressed against the formers to hold everything square.

 

[mndless]

The fuse sides really aren't straight, the sides do have a non linear taper to them. Going to try to work out from the center. Going to run to HD today and see if I can get a length of conduit, or something rigid, to run along the center line. I can then block/brace outward from this rigid center support.... or... I think that will work.

 

[3Dchief]

I think you missed my point, the fuselage curves, but the frames that it sets on are not. Not real numbers, but say the fuselage is 10" wide at the front and the building cradle is 12" wide. At the rear, the fuselage is 6" wide, but the building cradle is still 12" wide. You square up the building cradle with the angle iron, this will force the fuselage to be straight because the cradle is straight.

 

[mndless]

I gotcha... I'll lay a straight edge on the plans and check again. Thanks!

 

[BalsaDust]

I properly blinged my new to me 30% Carden Cap232. I hope it makes @SleepyC and @Bartman proud.

 

[mndless]

Well... there isn't much straight on this fuse or formers... curved sides, curved bottom... so, here is my solution to aligning things. Measured some guage widths off the plans and cut out these temporary formers. glued them in place with 'break off' tabs' spaced them out over a straight section of metal conduit. Have a little more aligning to do and should get back to gluing. Looks like this should work ok.

 

[3Dchief]

That looks like a great solution! Way to think out of the box, we get trapped in our ways and sometimes it's hard to break away and be creative!