F-705 Real Bulkhead Spacer July 14th, 2010
This little bar goes between the ‘fork’ that accepts each wing’s rear spar. We start out with a piece of aluminum bar, and cut out two pieces:
I am still surprised how well my Sears bandsaw cuts through aluminum. I just use a little cutting oil and it goes through like butter (well, not quite, but still very effortlessly).
One of the corners needs to be filed about 1/32″, so I just clamped in a vice and filed a little at a time until it matched the dimensions on the drawings.
Here is the end result. Nice and shiny…
