Fuselage Welding

[astjp2]

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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

[Mark Julicher]

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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.

[Forrest Barber]

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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..

[Ron Coleman]

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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

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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?

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

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

[swoeric]

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So i feel the need to dig in here a bit. I am looking ata few projects coming up. I am asking for advice in torch tip size and technique for welding Exhaust, landing gear, oil sump.


Oil sump has a few cracks around the flange that let oil out. I had one or two of these fixed before. I imagine they fixed with tig or mig. it seems as though it was a bit brittle and between torquing up in this situation and vibration that i had these appear. my plan is to grind back the weld some from the inside and work my way around with a torch jumping from one side to the other to keep distortion to a minimum. then heat relieve whats left when done. then do a bit of penetrant inspection because i can at no cost as well as use it for a UT inspection test part again no cost.


The exhaust is something im going to build from ground up. I am not sure on material yet ss or not depends on what i can get ahold of easily. it will be tacked in place with mig. I could use mig here all the way around any dissenters in the crowd please let me know or PM me your thoughts. other wise I can use my gas setup. any suggested pressures and tip sizes ????

The next is an extended landing gear. YES YES i have a very qualified aircraft welder looking over my shoulder if needed(these welds will also be UT inspected since I will be sitting on them). This was an area that i planned on gas welding do to my ability to better control heat with it. I occasionally get out of rhythm with mig or tig (not much practice). Again filler material gas tip sizes and pressures rules of thumb?

If we don't want to stir any more up here I understand at least PM me what you know. ill post results as soon as these get done hoping to take a week off work and focus on these projects

[Pearson]

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Norm,

One is just as good as the other. They both look fine. Are you going to the Taylorcraft fly-in this May?

[stormman]

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Norm,

I think when it gets to nine lines, it's considered more of a mini bio than a signature. :clue?::

Hows this Richard:tup:

[Pearson]

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Norm,

I think when it gets to nine lines, it's considered more of a mini bio than a signature. :clue?::

[stormman]

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LOOKS like i need to edit my signature to include N 4NH Quicksilver on puddle Jumper floats. LOL

[stormman]

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Good to hear your voice too Ron
Seems all I have been doing is working on this house since retirement. Got a hanger at the local Airport and am the airport flunky doing the mowing and repair work for hanger rental. Part time schoolbus driver and a 2 place Quicksilver on Ampibs . T is in my garge at home waiting till who knows when for me to fix the wings. Seems i have new spars and a crap load of ribs i bought from Eric years ago but this retirement thing and moving has taken its toll as i just now seem to be back on track minus the wall street hit and world affairs.. Been reading I now need new struts and $$$$$ to fix these things.
Anyway the Quicksiver is kind of a flying machine but it for sure is not a Taylocraft , but as the song goes "Love the One Your With".

BTW did I say I spend way too much time at Wal Mart Mcdonalds hanging out and I LOVE to hang out on my porch looking down the lake? As one of our member once said.
"You don't know Life till your sitting on your front porch eating and sipping tea with your plane floating on the lake 20 feet from you". In this case its a Quicksilver but its still mine! "LG" Life is Good. Better than some and not as good as others BUT still GOOD.

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