Victoria! Zeke's CB175 Build
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That looks very professional. How thick is that lock wire? I try to pick up an industrial sized roll of .020" stainless at Oshkosh if I get there or on line from Aircraft Spruce.
How thick is that bottom front fairing stay and how much weight could you save with an aluminum one or "bent tin" ie thin gauge steel pressed into a U channel shape with a thin wall chrome moly cross tube (or all aluminum). Just teasing you because we can....
How thick is that bottom front fairing stay and how much weight could you save with an aluminum one or "bent tin" ie thin gauge steel pressed into a U channel shape with a thin wall chrome moly cross tube (or all aluminum). Just teasing you because we can....
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we were hoping the aluminum exhaust collars would offset the steel fairing mountsteazer said:That looks very professional. How thick is that lock wire? I try to pick up an industrial sized roll of .020" stainless at Oshkosh if I get there or on line from Aircraft Spruce.
How thick is that bottom front fairing stay and how much weight could you save with an aluminum one or "bent tin" ie thin gauge steel pressed into a U channel shape with a thin wall chrome moly cross tube (or all aluminum). Just teasing you because we can....
we head down to COTA in Austin on Tuesday. Looks like we may need to build a rear fender to keep water out of the carbs with our forecast...that is .032" annealed brass safety wire from Aircraft Spruce. Interesting read on the history of safety wire and we needed to check it out. Had Zeke practice with both stainless and the brass he likes the .041" stainless on the fairing clips...don't want them to go anywhere the "why" is so important. Like not using nylocks on vibrating machines. Takes a lot of Zen not to break the brass so you don't break your ass Don't you think that he should learn not to nick the brass before he should move to doing the stainless? My grandfather was a dairyman and when he taught me to milk a cow by hand he said, "just grab that tete and pull" bad advice later in life...I wish he had taught me more finesse when I was younger Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
