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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Rough Edge racing on May 22, 2021, 06:20:25 PM
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Aircraft guys, this was shown on the HAMB hot rod site as an example of bad welding.It was part of the frame of a FLYING Foker tri wing replica...
Do these hand built aircraft get a close inspection?
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That’s why they have 3 wings.
2 of them can easily come off in flight, THAT is disgraceful.....
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Wow that is bad!! Yikes!
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Looks like Ray Charles welded that with his feet.
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Looks like Ray Charles welded that with his feet.
That is seriously funny.
Skippy
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Do these hand built aircraft get a close inspection?
Yes.
As an Experimental Aircraft Association technical inspector, I've seen some poor welding. Nothing like that stuff, though. :shocked: :rolleyes: It is suggested, but not required to have a tech inspector look at it.
It is *required* to have either an FAA Flight Service District Officer or Designated Aircraft Inspector go over it before licensing, though.
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My oxy/acty skills may not be the greatest, but that gives chills the longer I look at it.
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Learning how to weld is a worthy task for sure, but...
Maybe the pictured welder should have started with something more earth bound, like a cattle gate for use out on the range. (how I started).
:-)
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Learning how to weld is a worthy task for sure, but...
Maybe the pictured welder should have started with something more earth bound, like a cattle gate for use out on the range. (how I started).
:-)
True statement. The best way to learn is by doing it on scrap . After I was able to weld so that it was structurally sound I needed to work on appearance. To that end I still like to start a welding project where the weld will not show so that when I get farther along and the welds look good as I get everything set and remember how, the welds that show look good. That’s cheating of course but in aviation “ if it looks good, it is good”. That’s humor.
The worst I’ve seen was on a Cardinal that someone had used an oxyacetylene torch to remove a wing rib to fit a wing leveler for an ultra light. A city administrator had bought this aircraft without a pre buy inspection and that was just one of the many unairworthy things I found on it.
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Those welds look almost like they were done by a harbor freight 120V ac wire feed machine, although there is not enough spatter. Scary stuff.