Wing ribs
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Are you talking about actually making the ribs or plotting an airfoil? If you're making tapered ribs, then the easiest way is to make a root template and tip template and sandwich ribs between them and carve and sand to shape. More to it than that, but it's long winded.
If you're making constant chord ribs then you can stack your blanks and use a band saw or scroll saw or do what I do and cut them out individually using a template.
How to make constant chord ribs
If you're making constant chord ribs then you can stack your blanks and use a band saw or scroll saw or do what I do and cut them out individually using a template.
How to make constant chord ribs
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thanks for that cafeen man it helped alot.
i am making my piper cub some new wings from scratch as the old ones were completely destroyed
by a strange gust of wind and a big tree.[:-]
i am making my piper cub some new wings from scratch as the old ones were completely destroyed
by a strange gust of wind and a big tree.[:-]
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[MilitaryMan - Yeah... that gust of wind comes through these parts sometimes too.]
The same gust comes through here as well. Strange meterological phenomenon. Also frequent.[
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Ribs for the cub will be much simpler than for a Spitfire or some such with no two alike[8D]
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The same gust comes through here as well. Strange meterological phenomenon. Also frequent.[
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Ribs for the cub will be much simpler than for a Spitfire or some such with no two alike[8D]
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i bet god has some wierd fat secretery who likes to create random gusts of winds
at people who are flying their aircraft. life isnt fair.
at people who are flying their aircraft. life isnt fair.