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Open wheeler gets a birthday
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Sun Dec 29, 2013 8:08 am
by SJ Lambert
And I thought stripping a cylinder head for re painting was fun!
Re: Open wheeler gets a birthday
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Sun Dec 29, 2013 8:13 am
by SJ Lambert
Re: Open wheeler gets a birthday
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Sun Dec 29, 2013 8:16 am
by SJ Lambert
Re: Open wheeler gets a birthday
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Sun Dec 29, 2013 8:32 am
by SJ Lambert
Aiming to get back to this
Re: Open wheeler gets a birthday
Posted:
Thu Jan 02, 2014 6:55 am
by SJ Lambert
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Some ancillary bits got a clean up today.
Re: Open wheeler gets a birthday
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Thu Jan 02, 2014 6:57 am
by SJ Lambert
Re: Open wheeler gets a birthday
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Thu Jan 02, 2014 7:01 am
by SJ Lambert
Re: Open wheeler gets a birthday
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Sat Jan 04, 2014 2:17 am
by SJ Lambert
Main frame getting some attention.
Re: Open wheeler gets a birthday
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Sat Jan 04, 2014 10:42 pm
by SJ Lambert
The steel fuel pipe that can be seen on the rear right hand side (right hand foreground) & is mounted by welding at it's for & aft attachment points has cracked at it's front weld (seemingly more than once).
As it's encased within the monocoque structure we're looking to hit upon a fix that will be ultra reliable.
Our theory as to it's failure is engine vibration being directly transmitted to it (I suppose it's possible that it was just a poor weld initially & that subsequent repairs didn't improve things greatly).
Anyway, thoughts so far are:
- re weld a one piece pipe back in and place a damping sleeve over it
- replace with a two piece pipe with a flexible joiner
- (on the "what if" spectrum) re weld a one piece pipe in with some droppers from the top rail of the skeleton attached to it.
- I'm open to anyone's thoughts on any of the above as well as additional ideas!!!!
Cheers James
Re: Open wheeler gets a birthday
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Sun Jan 05, 2014 8:44 am
by rgh0
I think I would use a bulkhead compression fitting for connecting thin wall tubing through a thin wall bulkhead.
The fitting has a compression fitting each end and the middle is threaded for clamping to the bulkhead using nuts and washers on each side.
Swagelock are the type of fittings I am familiar with but there are others similar.
http://www.coleparmer.com/buy/category/ ... on-fittingI think trying welding in this situation will always crack with vibration
cheers
Rohan
Re: Open wheeler gets a birthday
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Wed Mar 26, 2014 9:57 am
by SJ Lambert
Welding in a repair section into top rail today.
Blasted the skeleton this afternoon. Primer tomorrow.
Re: Open wheeler gets a birthday
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Thu Mar 27, 2014 1:41 am
by SJ Lambert
Re: Open wheeler gets a birthday
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Thu Mar 27, 2014 1:51 am
by Bud English
That's a project and a half and coming along nicely. Do those all end up being bucked aluminum aircraft rivets or Cherry rivets?
You have to love clecos!
Re: Open wheeler gets a birthday
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Thu Mar 27, 2014 8:49 am
by SJ Lambert
We've got Cherry rivets on hand, but are mostly using some blind Rivets from another manufacturer as they resemble the originals closely.
We're loving our 200 skin pins something fierce. Took delivery of 70 screw up ones today to compliment the Clecos.
Headed back tonight to chromate prime the skeleton. Plan to rivet tub back together Saturday morning.
Re: Open wheeler gets a birthday
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Thu Mar 27, 2014 12:49 pm
by SJ Lambert