Cool WWII reprints....

[ZRX61]

They arrived today, both are reprints originally published in 1942

https://www.tinmantech.com/html/bk_aircraft_welding.php
Mostly gas welding of tubular airframe structures etc.

And:
https://www.tinmantech.com/html/bk_a_crft_shtmtl.php
Various pics from inside Douglas (A20, C54), Martin (B26), Vultee , Boeing (StratoCruiser), Bell (P39), Edo (floats being made), Luscombe, Lockheed, Curtiss, Republic & NAA plants etc....


& ya never know... ya may learn something

I ordered them from the site I linked to, but they are (re) published by Lindsay Publications:
http://www.lindsaybks.com/

http://www.lindsaybks.com/bks7/airweld/index.html

http://www.lindsaybks.com/bks3/airc/index.html

[ZRX61]

Dang, 225+ views & not one comment, That'l teach me to post about technical stuff where pilots hang out & have people read the various posts to them...

or (& I can't believe this is the case..) I'm the only fabricator/welder/sheetmetal/mech guy on here....

[rreis]

ZRX61, don't despair, I'm thinking on buying one of those. thnx for the pointer.

[r1830]

Thanks for the links. I just ordered mine. I am currently an A&P student studing sheetmetal as we speak. Also, just took the welding course last month, and we did mostly oxyacetylene.

[ZRX61]

Thanks for the links. I just ordered mine. I am currently an A&P student studing sheetmetal as we speak. Also, just took the welding course last month, and we did mostly oxyacetylene.

The weldin book is all Oxy/Acetylene or Oxy/Hydrogen.

Handy tip for O/A on aluminum: Blue lens instead of the usual green, can be difficult to find at times tho.

If you can find the funds & want to be a sheetmetal god, the courses offered by Lazze, Covell & Tinman Tech are well worth the investment.

[r1830]

ZRX61,

Thanks for the tip on the books, I just got mine in the mail today. At first glance, well worth the price. In fact it is a tremendous deal.

On a side note I just finished one of our larger projects in sheet metal class today. I had to make a flush patch to repair a 1 3/4 inch gash on the skin of a UH-1 Huey tailboom. I had to design the patch and then fabricate a 4.25 inch diameter back plate and a1.93 inch plug. I attached the back plate with 36 rivets with 10 degee spacing staggered between two rows. All but 4 were coutersunk rivets, where a rivet line with universal head rivets was located. I almost got the line to fit perfectly in with the backplate, but just missed by about 1/8th of an inch on the two outer ring universal head rivets. Only had to drill out and replace 2 bad rivets. Unfortunately, somebody in a previous class removed the heads of the rivets in the skin with a chisel. You can see the tool marks from that running right to left along the rivet line with universal heads.


I am pleased with it for my first attempt. Lots of lessons learned.

[Chris]

Thanks ZRX. Ordering mine today