Builder's workshop March 1&2

[Bryan Cotton]

Ah- an unfortunate choice of words. You can have any speed, depending on how fast you crank. Look here:
http://www.yardstore.com/browse.cfm/4,4381.html

One for me, one for Adam.

One other note- the project they have you make is excellent for a first time builder. For somebody like me it is just additional therapy. I thought I would be done first with my experience, nifty rivet fan spacing tool, and so on. The Jones boys and a couple others whipped me though. Some of those folks had a few aircraft under their belts. It was fun.

[kmacht]

Darn. I was hoping someone had finally found a quicker or easier way to deburr. That was the one thing I really hated about building the wings. Way too many holes needed to be deburred before you could start riveting things together. With the fusealage you could at least make one or two parts and start assembling them after deburring. The wings you had to make and deburr 13 or 26 of everything before the fun part started.

Keith

[Rynoth]

One method I'm using for mass amounts of holes is to chuck up the deburr bit into my die grinder set to low psi. Being VERY careful not to countersink, I'm able to go hole-to-hole fairly quickly on sheetmetal, using very light pressure. A quick blip for each hole. The low psi of the grinder won't let it turn if it grabs too hard, also helping to prevent countersinking. The lightness of the die grinder (versus a drill) also helps to have a feather touch on each hole. Once I got it down I can almost do 1 hole per second along straight lines like the wing skins. This method doesn't work well on thicker parts, I've found (the bit tends to chatter.) But yes, deburring can be (is) a serious chore no matter what you do, especially on the wings.

I use one of these to chuck the bit. http://www.panamericantool.com/1-4-stra ... -2820.html
Can also use threaded bits and countersinks using that adapter, in any drill or grinder.