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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Travelers Rest, South Carolina
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Homebuilt aircraft metal working
I ran across this during a web search, and thought it looked pretty neat.
Particularly the engine turned firewall, and welded up aluminum lower cowling. It's an Acro Sport II, two seater.  Other pics at: http://allshops.org/cgi-bin/community/communityalbums.cgi?action=openalbum&albumid=9980141947454 |
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11-27-2006, 03:20 PM
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Join Date: May 2005
Location: Cridersville, OH
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Pat, We do that all the time on the mill with a piece of round nylon. It also helps to case harden steel. Cool pics and project.
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11-27-2006, 04:41 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: N. Phoenix AZ USA
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Its called engine turning and as Duke says, is very easy to do. Looks nice and makes some jobs shine.
Looks like a Lyc 0-320 or 0-360 inside. Should fly nicely!
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11-27-2006, 08:26 PM
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Join Date: May 2004
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Welcome to my world.
 Customer's Spacewalker II I helped him finish.  My One Design project (I polished my stainless firewall) 
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11-28-2006, 04:09 AM
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Did you get the memo?
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Wichita, KS
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Tim, I want your job, screw all this engineering nonsense. All I get to do is look at airplanes on paper, you actually get to play with them.
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11-28-2006, 04:13 AM
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Join Date: May 2004
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I want my job too (full time that is). Unfortunately, I am also an engineer by day (special machine design). Too bad we live in such a sue happy times, if I was not so scared of getting sued and health insurance was not so pricey, I would quit my day day job in a heartbeat and play in my shop all day on airplanes. I turn down alot of work and I do not advertise.
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