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Those are wing root fittings. He's trying to duplicate strut attach fittings that also hold a compression member.
Right. Wag used to have them...I saw them in an old catalog. They quit stocking them, probably because they were hard to make. I ran across some references about cracks showing up in the bend-- -- the radius was just too small for 4130.Those are wing root fittings. He's trying to duplicate strut attach fittings that also hold a compression member.
That would be cool!RV
I MIGHT have a set that came with an old Wag 2+2 kit project I bought years ago. I'll check............. Might save you a little grief.
also a clue when bending short sides like that, is to cut over size, bend, then trim to size.... i use that quite allot.... also for when rolling things like cowl doors.... form, then cut to final size..
I think i show that in this video... .062 aluminum
RV
I think I may have located them.............. in a neighbor's hangar...……. We did some "swapping" years ago. Should find in a day or two. All brace wires and compression struts should be with them if interested. They are the WAG version of the J3 wood spar parts. I'm sure they will need bead blasting and priming/painting.
Exactly! My material budget and tool/equipment budget are running neck to neck.Projects like this are good excuses for buying or making equipment that you might not otherwise have or need.
That was my first post above. I've been glued to this site for two months, and the good information has been overwhelming. I finished my Super Cub clone in 1986. Wood wings, flaps, four 17-gallon fuel tanks. Overhead structure same as a Super Cub. (Some wing parts came from 1960 SC that was destroyed two weeks after i sold it. O-320 on dynafocal mount. (Thought dynafocal rings were too expensive, so I pressed out my own parts and scratch-built the mount.) Plane was caught outside at the farm in the massive snow year of 95-96. Wound up chroming the cylinders and regrinding the cam shaft and lifters. Plane has sat in a heated hangar for over ten years, so I decided last winter to get it going again (TT 250 hours). Couldn't stop disassembling it as I found a long list of deficiencies. (My other aircraft: Travel Air 6000, Bucker Jungmann, and homebuilt Bucker Jungmeister.)
Glad to see you on board. I'm not far from Kalispell and should get out of my little world and over there sometime. Thanks for the info.
Vic
Near the trailing edge the top and bottom contours of the wing are very nearly linear. So there's really no shape to play with there. If I'm understanding you correctly - - -more of a wing shape
Here's some examples of a flap on the Arctic Tern or earlier Interstate.
Gary