Wing Stand Build #5: Spar Shelf
In this early morning session, I finally got to test out the stand. Read on to see how it went.
Wing Stand Build #4: Spar Towers
After a long weekend of Volleyball tournaments, Jack and I snuck away to the hangar for a few hours after a family dinner. We were able to complete the “spar towers” in this session.
Wing Stand Build #3: Caster Mounting
I hate leaving mistakes hanging for any length of time, so I decided to get an early morning session in and properly mount the caster wheels. Read on for details.
Wing Stand Build #2: building the base
With most of the parts in hand, I put the boys to work in a nice evening session of drilling, assembling, and wrestling with 8020. I made one big mistake that I’ll need to fix later….can you guess what it is?
Wing Stand Build
It’s finally time to get going on the wing stand. I’m probably a week or two away from needing to put the wing skeletons on there, so along with my friend Finn, we started the planning and fabrication process for the world’s most overengineered wing stand ever built…and it’s going to be awesome!
Building the Rib Flange Straightener
Before I can get to bending the rib flanges. THere is a tool I need to build. Check out how I did it in this quick post.
Priming Day!….sort of
What started as a session to prime some parts became an evening of friends and community as I jumped head first into a big skill gap I have yet to conquer. Priming! Check out the post to learn all the fun we had.
bench grinder stand
After laying out the drill press and band saw on the small table. I realized that there wasn’t an easy way to also have the
shelving, bandsaw, drdt2 & buffing wheel
It’s starting to look like a workshop. Trying to get the finishing touches on the shop as delivery date is imminent. Today we built out shelving, a bandsaw, the drdt-2, and a buffing wheel.