DR-1 (Sands): Builders Group - Page 99

Fokker210 · 2 February 2006, 08:22 AM

Quite a dapper pair...

Jim Bruton · 4 February 2006, 03:59 AM

compare Sirius Aviation to Wicks for some of your parts. for instance, their epoxy is a little cheaper, but their 90 degree ply is almost half price! anyone found a cheaper source for turnbuckles?

Fokker210 · 4 February 2006, 05:32 AM

Seems like the Sirius prices are somewhat in line with Aircraft Spruce and Specialty...Sirius may be a few $$$ cheaper but the lack of shipping costs make it pretty negligible for me. I have also found that AS&S will generally match prices for me. This may be because I am a local walk-in...not sure if they would do the same over the phone.
Not sure what is going on at Wick's - things are starting to look a little pricey !!

Tim · 7 February 2006, 08:27 AM

Not sure what prices being quoted, but I purchased my plywood at http://www.bd-international.com/Flat%20plywood.htm, product was great, service was good.

Fritz Kempf · 7 February 2006, 09:40 AM

Tim
You might want to look at Wicks, there prices seem to be quite a bit cheaper than B&D

1.5mm x 4 x4 Birch Pic. 12

Wicks is $25.78

B&D is $42.00

That’s a savings of $194.64

I’m no advocate of Wicks ether, frankly I think there down their with whale droppings

, but that’s a big difference.

Tim · 7 February 2006, 09:45 AM

Yea, I bought my stuff over 4 years ago, and the prices then where quite a bit lower. Also the sheet sizes where 61" X 61" and I was able to reduce the number of sheets at the time by adjusting the layouts provided by Ron on his plans.

So.... I stand corrected, or rather sit corrected in this case

Tim · 7 February 2006, 09:57 AM

Ok, so I went back to my original invoice (yep, part pack rat) and I notice that when I calculated the costs, and did the layout work, the result was a little more significant, in favour of the B&D prices. Actually, at the time, I saved about 12% over the prices then quoted by Wicks. Now the sheets compare at $0.8937 per square inch from Wicks versus $0.8859 per square inch from B&D.

Not that its a big deal, but I feel better that I didn't overspend by $200 bucks!

Dogtail2 · 8 February 2006, 03:21 PM

Interesting post on PPrune

http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=48569

Jim Bruton · 8 February 2006, 05:50 PM

Dogtail2, thanks very much for the link. Especially as i didn't see the Sport Aviation article recently published by the EAA - i get a diff mag from them.

Thanks Again!

Jim

Dogtail2 · 10 February 2006, 06:12 AM

Jim,

Can you tell me how much extra tube you had to buy, ie how much short your wicks module was and of which sizes? Just trying to think ahead so I dont end up waiting for material.

Thanks,

Pete