27th
December
2009
Longeron bending
Hours: 3.0 | Posted in Aft FuselageAfter building the priming table and cleaning up the shop, I needed to get the longerons out of the way to make space for priming…why not bend them too? I had to move the vise to the main workbench, but the bending of the longerons went fairly easily using the “Orndorff method.” The only glitch was that there is some minor scratching of the angles, despite having padded the vise jaws with 2 layers of rubber drawer liner, plus masking tape–so that’ll have to be smoothed out. Fitted the canopy decks to the longerons at the appropriate place, and drilled them together before setting them out of the way…at least as out-of-the-way as you can get 15′ pieces of angle with odd bends in them.
