You guys are a bunch of Perverted Ol' Barstards! Welcome to the club!
Over the weekend, I went shopping at Home Beepo and acquired some foam boards. They're more styrofoam than XPS, but they were 2 inches thick and CHEAP! Like about half what the XPS "pink stuff" would have cost me.
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09 28 19 Foam Boards.jpg
Then I used some sturdier pieces of wood and rebuilt the cutter. Made it just a bit wider in the process, too.
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09 29 19 Rebuilt Cutter.jpg
Next step was to cut some bits to the appropriate size and glue 'em together. Like so...
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09 29 19 Stacked N Glued N Cut.jpg
I used a spray adhesive, 3M #77, also found at Home Beepo, but I'm mostly familiar with it for automotive uses, like re-attaching falling headliners or sticking pads/cloth to the side of the door panel and stuff. Some of the videos on wing-making that I found on YouTube recommended it, so there ya go. YMMV... I can say that the cutter goes through the glue joints without any trouble.
I plan to make the wing (
or wings... Are ya there, Marcus???) in three sections. The middle section will be the width of the two downbars off the main hoop of the cage, about 30 inches. The cutter will do 32+ inch widths. The front-to-back length of the main wing is going to be about 30 inches. The "stack" of foam board in that last picture is about 33 X 32, so I can cut out the center section from that stack/block/hunk of foam. In theory...
This morning, with guidance from my computer guru TWWTFM, I printed out the wing profile I'm going to use at the proper size for the main wing. Later today (I hope) I will trace that shape onto some plywood or aluminum or something and glue 'em on either end of the block I made. Then, we'll start doing some cutting of airfoil shapes. In theory...
In other words, stay tuned y'all! We is about to commit aerodynamics!
Task #1 is to convince Bubba that every time I say "Wings" it does NOT mean we're having chicken...
Peace, Love and NACA #8415-
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