Brodhead Pietenpol Association

Original Posted By: "Hubbard, Eugene"
Subject: Pietenpol-List: Re: Pietenpol-List Digest: 6 Msgs - 12/12/01Dear All, Re. Wing Stresses,Thanks for bringing some building topics back into the List. I'm about to start building a Camper according to our strict UK PFA rules ( 18 signed-off inspections during build - thank heavens for my, my passenger's & the public's, safety ) and it's good to see some basic engineering being discussed at last. Go to Google, enter Pietenpol etc.and look at the UK sites, there's a lot there that will surprise you.Happy glueing & Seasons Greetings to you all, especially Matt for making this all possible.Nick Cliffe, High Wycombe ( former Home of Bomber Command & the 8th USAAF - Glen Miller played his last date here......) ________________________________________________________________________________

Original Posted By: Kip & Beth Gardner [mailto:kipandbeth(at)earthlink.net]
Hi Kip, Sounds like you're about to have a lot of fun!Your list of tools sounds pretty good--I found that I used my bandsaw (20year old Craftsman w/ 80 inch blade) the most of all, followed probably byan inexpensive 4 inch belt sander. I used a small table saw like the oneyou describe for ripping the rough leading edge shape, but not really verymuch else. I also used a small (cheap) router with a variety of carbidebits and shop-made fixtures to shape the trailing edge, cut the lighteningbays in the spars (1 inch spars), and to true up the leading and trailingedges of the ribs. You may be beyond these tasks already if you bought aproject. I also have a pretty nice scroll saw, but haven't used it for muchon the project. The only things that I couldn't have done without it arethe holes for the control tube through the front seat.As for making fittings, I have a six inch vise from Home Depot, probably oneof the same ones you're looking at. I replaced the jaws with a set ofshop-made smooth jaws (welded from two pieces of 1/4 x 1 mild steel) withthe edge of one jaw rounded to .090 radius, and the other to approximately.063 radius. I also have the inexpensive Grizzly metal-cutting bandsaw,permanently set up with a table for cutting fittings, and a (too small--5inch I think) grinder. Someone said buy the biggest grinder you can find.I didn't and I should have.As always, your milage may vary. I don't mind collecting tools that I don'tuse much bucause eventually become important.Gene HubbardSan Diego-----Original Message-----