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In
this video Ken White advances upon and uses the techniques
shown in "Shrinking Magic" to actually build aircraft
components; in this case a set of wheel pants from a flat
sheet of aluminum, and using nothing but a set of common
hand tools and a torch.
The
process starts with the drawing a templates, transfer
of the templates to a wood buck in the desired shape,
and then gradually working and finishing the metal to
the shape of the buck. Other sections of the video
detail types, tempers, and alloys of metals and details
of the tools and procedures used for stretching and shrinking.
from
the cassette cover:
Using a torch, mallet, stump, forming bag, slapper, dolly,
and clamp you can make a really nice set of aircraft wheel
pants. Learn how to go from a simple 3 view drawing
to a station buck, divide the form into parts, pattern,
blank, and shape. Fit all the pieces to the buck
by shrinking and stretching and proper annealing.
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