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Most roofing suppliers or contractors have sheet metal breaks. Most
of these place will do your bends for you(10' long, upto .063")for about a buck a piece plus $0.15 cents for additional bends on the same pieces. If you tell them you only need 10 to fifteen pieces and its for a homebuilt airplane, they might even bend them for free. Bryan |
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Veeduber wrote:
How do you think the wooden brake would do on 8 foot lengths of .032 2024t3? I suggested something almost identical a while back on the Bearhawk list for bending the spar webs and was met with much skepticism. ------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Del, 'Think' or know for a fact? :-) As a general rule the upper limit for wooden brakes is about .063 for tempered stock but a lot depends on the quality of the wood and workmanship. Although the load per unit of length remains the same the overall magnitude of the load naturally increases with the length of the bend. It also becomes more difficult to keep the leaf in the same plane as its length increases. There are fairly simple solutions to each of these problems and I would have no qualms about making up a long brake for .032 myself but I've got a lifetime of mistakes behind me :-) I couldn't find any .032 scrap but I did come across some .040 under the bench and put a 1" flange on a piece just to give you some idea what a wooden brake will do. (See the pictures WOODEN_BRAKE 05 thru 08 in the file previously mentioned.) Other than adding a bar and a couple of clamps this is the same set-up for .016 meaning the radius is all wrong. But what I wanted to illustrate was the fact that a wooden brake is more than adequate strength-wise. The real problem is maintaining the uniformity of the bend as the length increases. It can be done but the solution will depend on your tools and experience, the quality of the wood you use and how well the brake is secured. For an eight footer you're talking some loads that will throw the typical workbench all over the shop; it needs to be secured to the deck. -R.S.Hoover Why not visit your local scrap yard & pick up a couple of large-dimension steel angles in the length you need. At under 20 cents a pound, you probably won't spend much more money & the strength would be a lot higher. Charlie |
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Why not visit your local scrap yard & pick up a couple of
large-dimension steel angles in the length you need. At under 20 cents a pound, you probably won't spend much more money & the strength would be a lot higher. --------------------------------------------------------- Dear Charlie (and the Group), In fact, most guys probably do, as I alluded to in the original article. Of course, this assumes they can weld (and cut) steel, have access to suitable hinge(s) and so forth. The result is a more or less permanent part of your shop. Which can get a bit silly if you're only building one airplane and only need to brake a couple of bends. -R.S.Hoover |
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"Morgans" wrote in message
Perhaps I missed it. Where are the pictures? http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Fly5kf...SIC%20BENDING/ Or http://25th.com/t2/viewfull.php?index=621 http://25th.com/t2/viewfull.php?index=622 http://25th.com/t2/viewfull.php?index=623 http://25th.com/t2/viewfull.php?index=624 For a brake I built with Veeduber's inspiration. This is an 8 ft'r. |
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