Dennis5678
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Most of us think you do welding in the summer and woodwork in the winter.
Well just thing the opposite may be true. I suggest welding in the winter. Why
well at the tempatures you are working with have little effect on the overall tempatures of the ambient air. You can feel any cold air better in the winter than the summer. I would not do metal bending in the winter useless you have a heated hanger. If you are using the Oxy-Asy system you get the added benefit of staying warm.
For the wood work, the humid summer months you plywood will expand and when winter hits the plywood will shrink. Causing all sort of problems.
I had this experience building my Volksplane (don't laugh, it was my first homebuilt that flew on Oct 4th 1978. When I applied the 1/6 plywood to the wings to help the wing from twisting when ailerons were applied.
Well and way when summer came the plywood expanded leaving an inward buckle of the plywood. Guess I could have recovered the area with new 1/16 inch plywood but I didn't. I just cut out the fabric where the indention was and pieced in a fabric patch. On the Volksplane it did not make a difference being that there is now true airfoil shape in the entire wing. Being a dragy aeroplane and slow it had no effect on it's flying abilities.
But on the hotter airplanes it would.
So what do you guys and gals think?
Well just thing the opposite may be true. I suggest welding in the winter. Why
well at the tempatures you are working with have little effect on the overall tempatures of the ambient air. You can feel any cold air better in the winter than the summer. I would not do metal bending in the winter useless you have a heated hanger. If you are using the Oxy-Asy system you get the added benefit of staying warm.
For the wood work, the humid summer months you plywood will expand and when winter hits the plywood will shrink. Causing all sort of problems.
I had this experience building my Volksplane (don't laugh, it was my first homebuilt that flew on Oct 4th 1978. When I applied the 1/6 plywood to the wings to help the wing from twisting when ailerons were applied.
Well and way when summer came the plywood expanded leaving an inward buckle of the plywood. Guess I could have recovered the area with new 1/16 inch plywood but I didn't. I just cut out the fabric where the indention was and pieced in a fabric patch. On the Volksplane it did not make a difference being that there is now true airfoil shape in the entire wing. Being a dragy aeroplane and slow it had no effect on it's flying abilities.
But on the hotter airplanes it would.
So what do you guys and gals think?
