With seven simple hand tools (including the torch), a set of wheel pants, or other similar panels can be constructed. This tape starts with alloy, temper, and thickness applications, and goes into buck development from drawings
Video: Edge Those Panels With a hammer and dolly, or the edge of a workbench, many types of bends, flanges, and hems are shown, and common mistakes identified.
Learn what defines the “reverse” shape. Also learn to develop, pattern, lay out, form, join, & fit this difficult contour to an actual high-end restoration in process. Complete process for windshield, wing strut, wingroot, and gearleg fairings are shown from “idea” to paint-ready condition.
AA vintage Porsche RSK nose is axed clear through, straightened, gas welded (butt-weld), planished and metal finished to perfection, on camera, with no edits, a few simple hand tools, - and no fillers.
Use, tune up, and modification to the Lancaster shrinking machines are demonstrated in depth in the first part, and then the use of form blocks is covered in detail, handworking inside and outside curved flanges on various sheets such as aluminum, stainless, copper, magnesium, and titanium. A short section on shrinking a large dent out of a flat steel sheet is also included.
There are volumes of information available regarding the construction of tube and fabric aircraft. Unfortunately, most of this information is geared toward older techniques and traditional welding methods.
Includes: Fiberglass Repair & Gelcoat Damage & How to Repair Gelcoat. Learn all the procedures to repair gelcoat inlcuding mix matching colors, fill scratches and voids, spray gelcoat, applying new fiberglass laminate and final finishing.
All five of our How-To videos on a convenient 2 DVD set. A total of 190 minutes of the most complete guide for using composite materials available anywhere! The Complete Fiberglass and Composite Library contains The Basics of Fiberglass, A Step-By-Step Guide to Molding Fiberglass, Advanced Moldmaking and Plug Construction, Vacuum Bagging and Sandwich Core Construction and The Art of Moldless Composites. .