Thursday, July 12, 2012

Rear Landing Gear Braces

Machined the two rear landing gear braces out of 1/8" X 1-1/4" equal leg 6061 angle tonight.  First machined them to length, then machined one side to 25 mm and the other side to 15 mm.   The third step was to add chamfers to the corners and the final step was to drill 5 holes.  All in all it took about 2 hours.  I just realized that I will have to spend some time indicating my vice back in on the mill because of the angles I had to set up to machine the chamfers...bummer.  I completed bending the last two sheet aluminum parts today too.  Last night I went through the take offs for all of the spruce, it will be about $700 worth of spruce alone.



Number of hours:  2.0
Total hours:  7.5

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