Here is my 2 cents worth.
After searching the forum on how to roll the leading edges on the elevators and rudder and finding a lot of useful info I thought I might publish my method.
I decided to go with 2 techniques I found here. One is clamping down the pipe with wooden blocks and the other is using a plastic sheet under your work to allow the part to slide while rolling. After finding varying thicknesses of pipe or broomstick here I decided to use the closest I could find to the recommended vans thickness of one half inch, in my case 3/5 inch conduit.
While looking through my shop to find something to use as a t-bar I ran into these. Pipe wrenches.
How easy is that. Stuck one of these in the end of the pipe and turned it with a socket wrench to bend the ends up just past 45 degrees. I started to bend the sections separately on the one side but seeing as though it went so smooth I decided to bend all three at once on the other side. That worked just fine.
Hope it helps..
After searching the forum on how to roll the leading edges on the elevators and rudder and finding a lot of useful info I thought I might publish my method.
I decided to go with 2 techniques I found here. One is clamping down the pipe with wooden blocks and the other is using a plastic sheet under your work to allow the part to slide while rolling. After finding varying thicknesses of pipe or broomstick here I decided to use the closest I could find to the recommended vans thickness of one half inch, in my case 3/5 inch conduit.
While looking through my shop to find something to use as a t-bar I ran into these. Pipe wrenches.
How easy is that. Stuck one of these in the end of the pipe and turned it with a socket wrench to bend the ends up just past 45 degrees. I started to bend the sections separately on the one side but seeing as though it went so smooth I decided to bend all three at once on the other side. That worked just fine.
Hope it helps..
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