Fuselage Welding

[Guest]

Re: Fuselage Welding

Look at the Conental manual for the sump repair. It specifies repair by brazing. At least mine does. Dave

[Guest]

Re: Fuselage Welding

I would forget MIG for exhaust.

It is very difficult to use MIG for that.

You have to move the "torch" very quickly and change the angle to the contour of the tube intersection shapes in order to keep up with the wire feed.

I find MIG most usefull for joints that don't change geometry too much.

I would use gas or tig.

Probably gas unless you have TIG experience.

Dave

[Guest]

Re: Fuselage Welding

Hi Mr. Finch

If you want a monster debate try the one on "can you really get a T-Craft on the step" or "is a downwind turn any more dangerous than an upwind turn". You might try the "I want hyd. brakes on my t-craft" or you can really set fire to the place by stating" well, I've dealt with the factory and got good service" better run and hide.

I am impressed by your shop and how refined your work appears to be, glad that you are with us.

Ron Coleman

Hey Ron, I vowed to bow out of this but forgot and jumped back in.

Now I am thinking of a really monster debate: Can I get my t-craft on the step but only when I have my inverter technology TIG machine in the passenger seat. What causes that?

[Ron Coleman]

Re: Fuselage Welding

Hi Drude..
You are just looking for a fight! You know as well as I that the red side of the TIG has to face the seat to get the weight forward, otherwise you have to rock back and forth real hard to get it up!
Yep!
RonC

[Forrest Barber]

Re: Fuselage Welding

Actually the weight forward can be accomplished by shaving a bit off the trim Brick in the rear fusealge area. I had to show Tim & Ryan Newell this old trick as we were putting their Taylorcraft together in my shop today. YES after a long hiatus , the shop is running again. I just had to jump into this thread as it made my day in the dreary crap we have outside the office window.

Seriously I am waiting the arrival of the Twin Otter for the sky dive operation , the rain is back again. Going to work on L-2 shock struts again this week. We did a lot of clean out and found some great parts . I will lsit stuff next Tues- Wed..

[Mark Julicher]

Re: Fuselage Welding

Eric,
If you want to gas weld on fine/thin metal, consider buying a Meco Midget torch available from Kent White (Tinmantech.com). This little torch is light weight and puts flame precisely where you want it. #3 tip for 4130 tubing and #1 or #0 tip for aluminum welding works well. I know folks that love their Smith/Victor/Henrob etc, and yes those are all good, but I like the little Meco-- just one opinion from the peanut gallery.

[astjp2]

Re: Fuselage Welding

I have the Meco tips and use them on a victor J-40 which is about the same size as the Meco. There was a guy that made adapters on Metameet.com. Tim