> From: David E. Munday [mailto:munday@engr.uky.edu] > Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2000 1:27 PM > Subject: Re: Test & Intro > > I just did a quick and dirty fix-up on the links on the web page. I > think all the foreword links work, but I make no guarantee that any of > the links that take you back anywhere work. The construction photos > now have a valid link. Take a look at the landing gear vee photos. > It took me two trys to get them right too. The photos are near the > bottom of the photo page. <got 'em> Wow: the tandem's come a fair bit since the Pizza Box Flyer. Good work, man. Excellent construction photos: cheersalot. Just the thing. (Yo, Mark Millerborg: likewise the shots of your Baby. I'm collecting stuff like this so I have something to relate mine to.) So, the bolt gag on the vees lamination looks like the ticket. What adhesive did you use on those? (and...) Which wood did you use? I guess this is more to my point: I have a ready source of poplar boards in just the right dimensions that I'm thinking about doing it with, and I'd like to know if there's any alarming reason why I shouldn't. I know that these vees are a crucial item on the Baby. After putting one of them together with T-88, though, I sit around and wonder what it would take to fail it. It looks bombproof to me, and I need to know if a poplar substitution is going to make that big a difference. I've also thought about doing them in oak, but I guess the obvious thing about that is the weight. Thoughts, anybody? Here's probably a dumb question, on top of a dumb blither: Yesterday, I said something like "I need to make an aileron hinge." (Uh-huh. Right.) Anyway, the plans call for "AN-257-2-300 or equivalent" hinges. Eight of them. Anybody got a line on these or the currently hip equivalent? I don't even know what they look like, except that I imagine some kind of piano-thing, like I see at fig. 4-23 of the plans. I've looked in the AS&S catalog and didn't see 'em, etc. Billy