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Old 10-31-2002, 12:28 AM
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Default Foam cutting help

...and one last picture of the various jigs, templates, etc. The board, alumimun channels, window locks (on drop arm), rollers etc are all from Home Depot (about $40 total)

To figuring out where the inner line attached I used:
Length of drop arm * tip cord / root cord

For my wing, this was 40 X 7.6 / 18.5 or about 16.4 inches. Then a few test passes to get it exact (you can almost see the L/E & T/E marks on the templates that I used for this)

The blocks holding the C template have a pin that goes through an alignment hole on the cord line. I used these to properly set the height of the template before drilling the L bracket holes along the bottom.

I spent the last two months researching and making all this stuff and about 1 hour actually cutting cores! I am glad I decided to cut my own.
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