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 Well I've made the dissishion my 701 is going to be 99.9% from sratch and have jumped in with both feet ,I've got all my forming block's and blank templets cut and have orderded a good amount of 6061 t6 ,I'm still having problem's finding the proper size and thickness of 4130n tubing ? So if anyone has found a suppler that has a good supply on hand please let me know!! I know they are out there I just havent found them yet I find one size here and one size there but no one that has it all… Continue

Added by Douglas Lee Broughton on March 12, 2011 at 3:37am — 2 Comments

Testing the waters

I'v been thinking of building a plane for years and just bought the plans for a 701 and have spent more time printing every thing out ,and trying to decide what to build and what to buy ? well the rudder kit sayes it takes about 12 hours and testing the waters with junk I had laying around from scratch I built a 100%mockup of the rudder in less time then the 12 hr for the kit and this included cuting the forming blocks and fabercating the part's assembly was the shortist time (note) this is…

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Added by Douglas Lee Broughton on March 1, 2011 at 3:30am — 2 Comments

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