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    Default Home built airplane

    A fellow aviator and I are building a home built airplane and had difficulty finding someone in our area to cut the wing ribs for us. CW to the rescue!! Here is the pattern we made. The wood used is 1/4" aircraft grade spruce plywood. When the plane is finished, I will follow up with pictures.

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    WOW that's great. So much the CW can do, it only takes imagination.
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    Keep us up to date on your project!

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    Wood love to see the results myself.

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    I really hope this project flies . . . Sorry, I just couldn't resist.
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    I would hate to see this project crash too....

    Another idea for cutting this stuff is do like I do the the plastic tags. Use a carrier board and double sided tape. Set up the project with a outline of the part and assign the 1/4 inch bull nose bit to Designer and set the depth to .026. NO Tabs with this method.

    Use a 1/16 inch end mill bit to cut the parts out. By telling the machine you are using a 1/4 inch bit the feed rate will lock into 1st gear.

    If you cut them with the 1/8 inch bit watch it cut. It will do the corners slow then speed up. That speed up can sometimes give you problems as the bit cannot cut fast enough and it pushes the wood.

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    Cpt. Bruce and Digital. I forgot to mention that I used a sled for the carve, used the 1/8" cutting bit. I first made a jig to hold the entire piece of plywood and assigned a carve depth of .3. That way the plywood would not splinter with the cut. I fabricated 4 swivel pieces, one on each side of the plywood directly over the tabs to ensure the piece would not rise or slip. This is the second home built we have made, the first was great. After flying the 757-200 for several years, these small planes have restored the fun of flying. As an old Army 1SG turned aviator the CW has also restored the fun of wood working. Thanks for the tips and encouragement. We finished all the metal work, courtesy of my partner, and are ready to build the wings. More pics as we finish more. I will take some pics of the metal work finished and attach them sometime this next week.
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    Quote Originally Posted by rockflier View Post
    Cpt. Bruce and Digital. I forgot to mention that I used a sled for the carve, used the 1/8" cutting bit. I first made a jig to hold the entire piece of plywood and assigned a carve depth of .3. That way the plywood would not splinter with the cut. I fabricated 4 swivel pieces, one on each side of the plywood directly over the tabs to ensure the piece would not rise or slip. This is the second home built we have made, the first was great. After flying the 757-200 for several years, these small planes have restored the fun of flying. As an old Army 1SG turned aviator the CW has also restored the fun of wood working. Thanks for the tips and encouragement. We finished all the metal work, courtesy of my partner, and are ready to build the wings. More pics as we finish more. I will take some pics of the metal work finished and attach them sometime this next week.
    Being a homebuilder myself, I'm curious, what are you building?

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    Quote Originally Posted by chkorte View Post
    Being a homebuilder myself, I'm curious, what are you building?
    CH, this one is the Bekeng Deuce, the first one we built was the Midget Mustang, 200 h.p.. Great flying little plane.
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    Here are jpegs of the gussets for wing ribs and flaps. Using 1/16" mahogany plywood mounted on a MDF carrier, we used masking tape on each end to hold the 24" x 12" sheets down, used the 1/16" carving bit with a carve depth of 3/32". There were 60 pieces of each gusset. Last time it took us 6 months of drawing, cutting with an exacto knife, and sanding. The entire carve was done in an afternoon!! The wing ribs use the Clark Y airfoil design. Correction on previous spellings, the craft is the Bakeng deuce, designed by the Boeing aeronautical engineer, Jerry Bakeng.

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