Cutting struts
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RE: Cutting struts
Depends on the cutoff wheel. I may be wrong, but at a minimum you will need a heavy duty cutoff wheel, possibly the fiberglass reenforced one.
I use a HD wheel on my dremel for cutting K&S streamline aluminum tubing for struts with no problems.
On a personal note, titanium for wing struts seems a bit of overkill to me.
As I said above, I use K&S streamline aluminum tubing and after soldering a ring terminal on a piece of 3/32" or 1/8" music wire, I JB Weld about 2" of it inside the tubing. I have had a couple of nasty crashes that have mangled the struts, but the JB Weld on the wire never came loose.
I use a HD wheel on my dremel for cutting K&S streamline aluminum tubing for struts with no problems.
On a personal note, titanium for wing struts seems a bit of overkill to me.
As I said above, I use K&S streamline aluminum tubing and after soldering a ring terminal on a piece of 3/32" or 1/8" music wire, I JB Weld about 2" of it inside the tubing. I have had a couple of nasty crashes that have mangled the struts, but the JB Weld on the wire never came loose.
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RE: Cutting struts
Cut them last night - used a fiberglass reinforced cutting wheel and went slow at half speed. Talk about white sparks! Looked like a sparkler from around the 4th of July.
Trimmed both ends of 2 struts and have them installed now. Thanks!
Trimmed both ends of 2 struts and have them installed now. Thanks!