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Happy birthday buddy!
One year closer to being a delusional BoB!
One year closer to being a delusional BoB!

@sgohsixthree
Not only do you guys spell your name the same , but you have birthdays just over a week apart!
Happy Birthday Shaun![]()
Happy birthday buddy!
One year closer to being a delusional BoB!
One is just much faster than the other one! Happy birthday fast Shaun!@sgohsixthree
Not only do you guys spell your name the same , but you have birthdays just over a week apart!
Happy Birthday Shaun
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Off topic question for the brain trust that is the Lobanaro Lounge. I know there’s a lot of experience here, so any advice on how to properly drill thru carbon fiber? It’s for the wing tips (winglets for you pilots) for the rear spoiler on my car. I’m getting conflicting info from the net. I’m thinking that to drill a small mounting screw hole I should (“A”) place masking tape on both sides to reduce possible fraying of the fibers. Then using a high speed drill place the winglet on a block of wood and drill straight thru and do it in one go. Or (“B”) slowly start drilling a little and then backing out, use compressed air to clean out the hole, then proceeding a little at a time.
Option “A” seems to make the most sense, but I was hoping for feedback because I only have one shot to get it right. Thanks!
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***EDIT/UPDATE: Disregard request. I used a titanium bit at high speed with blue tape on each side of the drill site. Worked perfect.***
LOL at "My side has the signatures of the foster children from the foster picnic".Any you guys got facetweet
Any word from SGETI on how he's doing with the Nor'easter? My cousins in Quincy, MA said there was big time flooding during high-tide and a lot power outages. Here's hoping he and his are doing ok.
One is just much faster than the other one! Happy birthday fast Shaun!
As you know, my mom was English. She chose my spelling as being the 'correct' English way, and AFAIK it is. I'm pretty sure Sean is Irish.
Bear said he wouldn't mind seeing some more pictures of flying here, so:
Great pics! It’s awesome that you get to live your dream AND make a living at it. We have so much in common! We both spend our days flying our plane around paradise. Of course there’s just a little difference in the way we experience it...lol
https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/island-flight-simulator-ps4/
Off topic question for the brain trust that is the Lobanaro Lounge. I know there’s a lot of experience here, so any advice on how to properly drill thru carbon fiber? It’s for the wing tips (winglets for you pilots) for the rear spoiler on my car. I’m getting conflicting info from the net. I’m thinking that to drill a small mounting screw hole I should (“A”) place masking tape on both sides to reduce possible fraying of the fibers. Then using a high speed drill place the winglet on a block of wood and drill straight thru and do it in one go. Or (“B”) slowly start drilling a little and then backing out, use compressed air to clean out the hole, then proceeding a little at a time.
Option “A” seems to make the most sense, but I was hoping for feedback because I only have one shot to get it right. Thanks!
***EDIT/UPDATE: Disregard request. I used a titanium bit at high speed with blue tape on each side of the drill site. Worked perfect.***
All is fine now, family is all ok. Power just came on an hour or so ago. Lost power friday afternoon. Tree's down all over the place. Wind gusts upto 80MPH. Shingles blown off the roofs. Now my verizon control box has s h i t the bed. No internet or TV. Using phone right now. Hopefully will be fixed for tmrw night racing.
shaun great picsGlad to see at least one of us is getting paid for something the love to do. That makes you the smartest guy in the room.
Hey, I love what I do, can I be the second smartest
I was in Detroit Thursday night where that storm originated. It was nasty. We got hit with seven inches of wet, heavy snow in about eight hours. Then the temp dropped and froze all the slushy, wet stuff into giant chucks of ice. The snow was so sticky, and it was blowing sideways and covering the street lights, which are now LED and don't create enough heat to melt. Intersections had to resort to 4-way stops because all the lights were white. In the morning my truck looked like I could brush the snow off, but it was crusted and glued. My door handles crunched when I opened them. Fortunately the temp got above freezing Friday and everything was gone by noon. But I saw the storm was moving east and getting worse. Hope everything gets back to normal soon for ya.All is fine now, family is all ok. Power just came on an hour or so ago. Lost power friday afternoon. Tree's down all over the place. Wind gusts upto 80MPH. Shingles blown off the roofs. Now my verizon control box has s h i t the bed. No internet or TV. Using phone right now. Hopefully will be fixed for tmrw night racing.
shaun great picsGlad to see at least one of us is getting paid for something the love to do. That makes you the smartest guy in the room.
Love the pics Shaun, and as this is Mike and mine's thread, and we are flyer's as well, (not at your level of course), you have permission to post as many flying and plane shots as you like!
I love the panel shot, you certified IFR Turbine guys have a lot going on in the panel. Is that a Garmin 530 with another GPS below, hard to tell as it's a bit blurry.
For years us experimental guys have had the latest technology at our fingertips for such low costs compared to the certified world. It is sooooooo expensive for certified instruments, the GTN650 in the pic below was required for IFR and it cost just under $10k ! The rest of the panel came to about that price! It is nice to see the certified worlds new stuff all in glass now. I still enjoy flying with an old basic steam gauge panel but a big glass panel sure is nice, the situational awareness is amazing.
Here is a few panels I have done with different glass display's, all have coupled AP's.
Dual Garmin G3X with cert GTN650 (this customer is military chopper pilot so plane is right seat PIC) Bearhawk
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It's a Garmin 430, this was taken just before we upgraded to GTN625s
Advanced Avionics Screen (Bearhawk Patrol)
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MGL Avionics Odyssey (Van's RV7)
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Never new that existed, will have to check it out.
Another trick we have used in the machining world for years is called spading a drill bit. Don't bother googling it though as just the wood spade bits will come up. I'll post a pic of one. You basically grind the cutting flute flat so you have no forward rake, which stops any grabbing of material. It works really well for plastics, composites and soft materials such as copper.
Didn't realize you guys were getting hit with a storm, glad all is ok!
Hey, I love what I do, can I be the second smartest,![]()
How do you reach the pedals though?Still a WIP, but I modeled it after my race car. The pedals, wheel, and shifter are in the exact spots as in my car. I even welded up the seat and wheel mount so that they replicated the same angle that my seat and wheel are in the car. It’s pretty damn close, and just as uncomfortable LOL View attachment 719115
Quite easily David, I’m 6’3! Plus it’s not meant to sit upright in, you slink further down in the seat than a normal car and my knees are hitting the cross bars under the wheelHow do you reach the pedals though?
@Aero: Thanks for posting info on spading the drill bit. The way I did it worked out, but I’m always up for learning a new skill.
Here's some pics of what I was talking about, easy to do but you just need to be good with a bench grinder. The whole trick is to flatten out the rake in the cutting edge. The problem with a standard sharp bit in soft materials and composites is that it will tend to grab and pull itself through the material, especially when breaking through, which will then give you a nasty burr or fracture the composite on that side of the hole. By grinding it flat, try not to go negative on the rake, you are basically scraping the material away and the bit will not grab. This technique works best when drilling plexiglass or other plastics, but works well on composites and soft metals like copper and brass.
Quick sketch shows reg drill on left, spayed on right.
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Standard drill has a 118 degree angle which you don't need to change.
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But I grind about a 135 to 140 degree angle and spayed it for plastics. It gets a bit trickier when changing the angle and takes some practice to get it right.
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I'm just fortunate to have the skills and the tools/shop to make just about anything I want. I have been a Tool & DieMaker for 37 years now, but have been around the machine shop environment my entire life as my dad is also the same trade, he taught me so much.It's nice to see others with fab and machining skills out there.
I'm just fortunate to have the skills and the tools/shop to make just about anything I want. I have been a Tool & DieMaker for 37 years now, but have been around the machine shop environment my entire life as my dad is also the same trade, he taught me so much.
If anyone ever has a question about fabricating something, please don't hesitate to ask, google doesn't always have the right answer!
Always drill plastic, especially plexiglass/acrylic, fairly slow and with gentle pressure. If the hole you’re drilling is for a fastner then always make the hole 1/32in larger, it’s amazing how much some plastics will shrink and expand in different temps. Also make sure to deburr all holes and edges.@Aero: Thanks for taking the time to diagram and explain the concept and process. I’ve worked with plexiglass on some projects and always had the plastic slightly warp when drilling holes in it even when using a dremel tool at high speed. Fortunately the deformation was at the drill site and the mounting bolt or screw covered the raised rim around the drill hole. I’ll go to Harbor Frieght and pick up some cheap drill bits to practice this technique on.
***And just an FYI that the Island Flight game I added to an earlier post is junk in case you were interested. My daughter got it “for fun” and it seemed like a PS1 game or something you’d play on an iPad. War Thunder is still the best flight sim on the PS4 in my opinion.
Happy born day.... I don't even want to know how you went about finding that gif Robbie....lolHappy birthday buddy!
One year closer to being a delusional BoB!![]()