Tony Spicer, LSA taildragger, Jab 3300

[brucegray]

Hi Tony,

Just a quick hello and hope this email finds you doing well(better). I see your posts with other builders and wondering if you have been doing any building yourself?

Hang in there and remember no matter what it is as long as it's something your one step closer.

Take Care,

Bruce Gray
Sourcing some good 110hp Corvair heads!

[PlaneDan]

Paul,

Any issues with the flush on the sides? That is the direction I was thinking of going, so there would not be the dimple depression on two edges of the thin square tube and to save some work for no gain.

[RonFranck]

Dimples.......they are so depressing.

[psalter]

Dan,

Mine is like the prototype, flush on the sides and protruding head on the bottom. Bob's has protruding rivets on the entire plane.

Paul

[Tony Spicer]

Tony,

Just wanted to say how much I've enjoyed browsing through your Panther build pictorial log. It's helping boost my confidence that I CAN build this airplane.

Thanks!

Jim Parker

Jim,

If you want to watch a first-time builder in action, have a look here:

https://picasaweb.google.com/1078143629 ... directlink#

Tony

[PlaneDan]

Might be leaning more to the CCP. I just can't get a picture in my mind of how it will look with part BSC and part CCP.

I wonder what Paul and Bob are choosing? I also wonder about making this depression on two sides of the tube and how that affects the strength, if at all.

I don't have to decide now as this will not be happening for at least 6 months.

At times, I think that the better decision would have been made back in February last year, to go all protruded. A little knowledge goes a long way.

[psalter]

Dan and I found that it worked best with a 100 degree die instead of the 120 degree die when we did testing on a section of tubing. That is what I did my fuselage with, and as mentioned, it is a depression not a dimple that is formed.

[Tony Spicer]

Dan,

I'm guessing SPA would be most happy to sell you another cage so you could do dimple testing. Or you could just buy a one foot piece of 1/2 x 1/2 x .035 and test on that. To get a good sharp dimple normally requires both a male and female die. What you need to do is figure a way to get the female die inside the tube.

Tony

[PlaneDan]

Would it be better if the cage were dimpled with the DIENQ? I would do a test, but I only have one cage.

[Tony Spicer]

Hi Jim,

Thanks!

Of course you can build a Panther! There are plenty of first time builders already doing it. It only takes three things: perseverance, perseverance, and perseverance. With enough of that, everything else will fall into place.

Tony