Making Ribs for a 1917 Sopwith Camel Ep8

[@ThorstenKreutzenberger]

A CNC Machine could come in handy, imho.

[@MattProject]

Would love one, but unfortunately the hobby budget doesn't stretch that far. I expect they will drop in price over the next few years. Checked out the cost for getting these (water cut) done by a commercial operator, but the cost there was too high as well. I've paid for that choice in time and learning but I'm ok with that.

[@bruceyoung1343]

You definitely could use some sort of dust separating apparatus. I had made a THEIN dust separator. Or at least I recommend a mask of some sort when I saw all that saw dust. And that’s just the saw dust you can see, there’s finer dust floating around when sawing/routing

[@MattProject]

Yep that's a flaw in my home setup. I've taken to wearing Covid masks when I'm doing a lot as we have a few left over. I own a proper filter mask I use when spray painting, but as you will know, it's hot, heavy, vision is blurred etc. Life is full of compromises. I had to Google THEIN dust seperator, that was interesting. I own and use a dust separator, it's of the type that has a large plastic bag under a large filter bag on top, dust falls from the filter bag into the collector bag below. It's noisy but works well and plugs into various power tools I have.

[@johnfriend240]

With your scrap rate I'd be looking at a CNC router. Did the oscillating sander switch get fixed?

[@MattProject]

Hi John, you're not wrong. I have more time than dollars though. When I got a price for water/laser cutting, it was pretty high putting me off. In hindsight and after some destructive testing (in a few videos) I was a bit tough on myself with regards tolerances on those ply webs, especially since my rejects appeared to more than pass destructive testing. Modern ply and glue of course helps. Yes on the switch, they sent out a new one, no questions asked.