Friday, November 27, 2009

A table for 2x

We've spent the last couple weeks working on our prop design. Rick's got a good handle on that now and we are close to starting construction on the template/ribs/etc. We'll post up some of the airfoil and performance plots in a bit.

Today we spent the day making up our build table. It has to be very straight and square so we can put our reference lines on it and also bolt guides to it etc.

Rick came up with a slick little set of adjustable braces that allow us to take any twist out of the table and still let us fold it up and put it against the wall when we aren't using it.

Here is Rick putting the last screws in the piano hinges before we put the legs on and turn the table over.

Table on it's feet for the first time.

A close up of the little adjustment bracket that I milled slots in. Loosen the wing nuts and slide the triangles relative to each other and the top twists/untwists.