Flange Ring-Carb Air box & Engine Baffles

[seaheli]

I am working on the tooling for the flange rings on the carb air box and engine baffle. They are spun from .032" alum. Can these rings stand to be a little thicker? Do they crush easily or wear thin from vibration?

Charles

[Dennis]

Charles,

Your work is fantastic but your energy to do this stuff is even more impressive.

Between your energy and MikeB chastising my laziness, I have started working on my wings again. I need you guys to keep pushing me, maybe I will get done soon. Going to the hanger....see ya.

Dennis

[MikeB]

MikeB is still stuck in San Antonio for a couple of weeks visiting with the 'kids'. I need to hit the L16 when I get back (first I have to make some money ). Tomorrow I'm going to tour the ECI plant.....I'll report/you decide.

Should mention I'm not exactly vegetating down here. I'm in the process of writing a book on the crash of a B29 in Japan during WW2. Preliminary writing is posted in the Off Topic section on this site.

Keep at it Dennis!!

MikeB

[Paul Agaliotis]

Charles,
I haven't seen any in-service problems with the thickness of the flanges. I don't see any problem in increasing the thickness. It could be better.
I drill out the spot welds and rivet the flanges to the new baffle. It's soft and you need to use the correct process and rivets or you distort the flange. A thicker flange would help here.
Paul

[seaheli]

Dennis,

Thank you for the compliments of the skills that were taught to me. The energy comes from seeing a customer smile when they receive the parts for their aircraft. Keep working on your project!

Paul,

I am building two new air boxes for customers, any information to improve the parts helps out. Thank you for the knowledge that you share.

Charles