Pressed Wing ribs
- Thread starter STEEL
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courierguy
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Inkom, Idaho
Steel, you may find this other carbon fiber cubalike of some interest: https://backcountrypilot.org/community/forum/latest/back-country-cub-lsa-prototype-13841 unfortunately this project has been abandoned I understand..
I was going to bring up that was back in 2013. Unless I have not seen otherwise it has not gotten into other hands and been finished.
courierguy
MEMBER
Inkom, Idaho
Yeah, it's dead as a door nail, I just thought he would find it interesting if he was not aware of it. All smoke and mirrors to me, composite work frightens me, I sure like the end results though.
Composites can be nice to build but to do it right there are allot of tooling and consumables to make a part right. The old fashion hand layup or the layup over foam the way Rutan's designs were built look easy going in but the second effort work to finish the surface makes the part just as time consuming as building a mold in the first place while you end up with heavy parts. I am actually at this decision point in my own build.
mellosteiger17
Registered User
Hello, i am Gaston from Argentina and i want to know how to make a stamped rib. I'd be very interested in learning how you fabricated the tooling required to press a rib.
Regards.
Gaston.
Regards.
Gaston.
mike mcs repair
Registered User
chugiak AK
This guy has some good videos
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EWGAIVDpDLc
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mike mcs repair
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chugiak AK
You probably will not be able to press a complete rib in one step. You will probably make it in 3 pieces and splice at the spars.
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