DR-1 (Sands): Builders Group - Page 91

Jim Bruton · 14 January 2006, 04:27 AM

hi Watpho!

That is Fritz's shop and i'll let him tell you, as i don't know! on monday, we plan to weld the back halves of both sides of the fuselage. who knows, we might even get to the cross pieces! more pix to follow....

Fritz Kempf · 15 January 2006, 12:52 PM

It is just a DeWalt Heavy-Duty 14" (355mm) Chop Saw - DW871 it's made for cutting metal with a abrasive Saw Blade. It workes quite well and fast.

http://www.dewalt.com/us/products/to...?productID=160

Ed

watpho · 16 January 2006, 10:38 AM

Thanks! I'm just trying to get an idea of the types of tools people are using to build.

worldcrusier · 16 January 2006, 11:22 AM

watpho,
If you patiently wade thru this entire thread you will find many tools and descriptions of tools for building. Welcome aboard.

joepilot · 16 January 2006, 02:03 PM

VonGrube outstanding pictures. For us new guys we appreciate the pictures. Awesome dude!

joepilot

jumpinjan · 16 January 2006, 04:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fritz Kempf

It is just a DeWalt Heavy-Duty 14" (355mm) Chop Saw - DW871 it's made for cutting metal with a abrasive Saw Blade. It workes quite well and fast.

I purchased one of these, and found the base plate that holds the material leaves a lot to be desired. Dewalt is the only one to have this cam lock for the angle fence and it sucks. It will also pop a 15amp breaker and you need a 20 amp or higher just to use it. My recommendation? Buy the cheaper brand and save $100.

Fokker210 · 16 January 2006, 05:34 PM

Jim & Fritz,
Great pics !
What are you guys using to notch your tubing ??

PETERn · 16 January 2006, 07:10 PM

Is anybody here going to use the new Rotec R3600 radial engine in their projects?
While looking at their website I saw that the first has been built and will be on a replica Nieuport 28. Heres a link to some photo's of both of them on their web site:

http://www.rotecradialengines.com/cu.../RayJarvis.htm

There is also a short video of it starting up, sounds great.
I admire all the work you blokes put into your projects and your sharing of knowledge between each other. If only you were building DVII's..
Cheers
Peter

Jim Bruton · 16 January 2006, 07:34 PM

Notching Tubing.... we use a milling machine with a cutter the same diameter as the tube- cuts through and makes a nice rounded interface for the tubing match. You can adjust the angle of the cut to match the angles of the tubes in the front part of the fuselage. We clean up with a pneumatic hand held tool that has a nifty cutting wheel. Fritz also has a nifty handheld pneumatic grinder that really cleans up the milled cut- and is super for fine tuning any fitting. We can take some close ups if you would like!

Rotec 3600- beautiful looking engine! About the price of a decent Warner too. Personally, I am still not sure- an M-14 (220hp/$10,500), a Rotec 2800 (110hp/$13,500) or a Rotec 3600 (150hp/$22K-ish).... I hope that by the time I am needing to firm up an engine choice, there will be some user reports on the Rotecs, and maybe a few more with the M-14.

NEWS FLASH FROM HANGAR 1: Today Fritz and I (mostly Fritz!) fully welded up both halves of my fuselage- awesome! pics will follow. Then we worked on taking out the distortion from the welding and began jigging up the 2 halves to accept the cross pieces- definitely a sense of completion. Also, we have ordered our Wicks Hardware Module, so we will soon be boxing in our spars.... which means we will soon be finishing our wings- starting with the upper wing.

Hope everyone was able to put the long weekend to good (aka "building") use!

Jim

Maxim08 · 17 January 2006, 12:56 PM

PETERn,
Check out the 'Locate all Fokker D VII builders' thread.
Regards,
Maxim08