Small Deviation from Restoration
My stepson Emmanuel who in his work life since high school has become a world class Tig welder (building nuclear power plant components in a clean room setting at a global company ) has decided to assist me in this restoration project. Seems he may have the airplane bug too.
Some of Emmanuel's handiwork in the picture above
Because the fuselage I am using in this project was in original - from factory condition and has seen no repairs. I have thought it would be a good opportunity to construct a repair jig/fixture.
This jig would be used in the future on 108 aircraft that have lower longeron, tail post, wing mount or gear mount damage, from either corrosion or ground loop damage and would maintain original mounting locations.
A new Tig unit is coming soon and will be useful on the projects going forward.
A plus is that I will get to become more proficient in tig welding.
We had to make a welding metal fab area in the hangar and the following pictures show the creation of the area in the hangar.
In 2018 I closed a hobby store business I owned and had to temporarily store the fixtures etc in the hangar. In the background on the left side you can see where we have built the welding fab area .
I decided the space under the storage rack would make a good welding fab area so I removed one level to give some head space and started to frame up for the steel lining
This should keep the sparks abated now its time to finish the welding table
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