RVBottomly
PATRON
Asotin County Washington (KLWS)
At about the 50 hour mark for me I switched to cutting the fishmouths with snips and eyeball. I started with longer tubes when there was a 50% chance of messing it up. I could then use it for a shorter tube. After a while my mess up rate dropped to around 5%.
Neat thing about snips is you can stand by the fuselage with the snips in a pocket, cut to fit, and move along. Walking back and forth to a grinder or mill adds up.
I gave up on the mill-in-a lathe approach pretty quickly for the reasons you gave.
Really nice work. I agree, building a fuselage is fun if you can swing the time. Lot of mental stuff going on--lot of checking dimensions over and over and trying to plan ahead. When it flows, it is pretty cool.
Neat thing about snips is you can stand by the fuselage with the snips in a pocket, cut to fit, and move along. Walking back and forth to a grinder or mill adds up.
I gave up on the mill-in-a lathe approach pretty quickly for the reasons you gave.
Really nice work. I agree, building a fuselage is fun if you can swing the time. Lot of mental stuff going on--lot of checking dimensions over and over and trying to plan ahead. When it flows, it is pretty cool.