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Chapter Detail
Entry #: 19
Postdate: 2005-03-13
I'm not actually done with Chapter 5 yet, but the opportunity has presented itself to cut the canard core with a couple of other local builders. We've actually been kicking this idea around for a number of months, and it finally came to pass today. The other two builders are Dean Head from Brooksville, FL and Dave Pierce from Clermont, FL. Dean is finishing up Chapter 9 now and needed to get this done anyway.
I supplied the power supply, and Dean supplied the hot-wire saw. We wanted to use a regulated supply so that when the wire cooled upon entering the foam, our voltage wouldn't drop. This worked well. Dean bought some "practice foam" from Home Depot which was a VERY good idea. I strongly recommend as uch practice as you can get with this thing before trying to cut any airfoil shapes. Above all, keep it slow.
Ed Richards, who I met at Rough River last year, owns a set of aluminum cutting templates for the canard. I contacted him, and he was nice enough to let me borrow them. Thanks Ed!
We didn't get the whole job done today, but we did get our blocks cut to proper dimensions. We're planning to have another "canard party" later this month.
 | | The power supply |
|  | | The show saw and some of the practice foam |
|  | | Dean and David |
|  | | Cutting the blocks |
|  | | A beautiful cut even if we do say so ourselves |
|  | | UPS damaged some of my foam. It turned out not to be a big deal though. |
|  | | Another shot of UPS's handywork |
|  | | Dean making some precision measurements :-) |
|  | | Now THAT is alot of foam.... |
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