When I’m not working I’ll usually be in the workshop building something, or out sailing on the San Francisco Bay.
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Surface prep discs
Today my friend Niels came over and we cleco’d together the forward spar. I received some very fine (blue) and super fine (white) surface prep discs from Pan American Tool and we tried blending out the scratches from using the medium (maroon) discs. They were pretty deep and I was worried about removing too much material blending……
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Starting Building
Space Over the past few months I have been slowly clearing out space in the basement below my office in San Francisco. It looks like it used to be an artist’s studio with multi-colour paint spatters on the floor. I’m really excited to have such a great space to begin my build – the only……
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Converting an airfoil from DXF to a coordinate file
Just thought I would quickly post about a useful tool I just learned about. I was working on tracing the Cozy main wing airfoil templates with splines in SolidWorks (more on this in a later post) and wanted to bring the traced airfoil section into XFLR5. SolidWorks unfortunately has no ability to export a list……
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