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  1. dhal22

    Yippee! What the postman brought

    Just felt like buying another one. My 3rd Permagrit tool.
  2. dhal22

    Scale Nelitz 1/3 scale Cub build

    More test framing last night.
  3. dhal22

    Scale RCM 1/3 Scale Champ Build

    Hope this one goes better.
  4. dhal22

    Scale Nelitz 1/3 scale Cub build

    More rib work today. Using a crooked spar piece to size the main wing spar opening.
  5. dhal22

    What beer ya drinking tonight?

    A 2 hour beer really. Just sip it and enjoy.
  6. dhal22

    What beer ya drinking tonight?

    That's what got me started on IPAs.
  7. dhal22

    Scale Nelitz 1/3 scale Cub build

    All in good time. Which means I need time to figure it out. I'll post a photo of the wing connection point.
  8. dhal22

    Scale RCM 1/3 Scale Champ Build

    My wife is from NJ, her grandparents lived on sea isle, her brother owns a house there now. I've been there many times.
  9. dhal22

    Scale Nelitz 1/3 scale Cub build

    Ribs cut and fitted. Originals go in my scrap bin.
  10. dhal22

    The 'What did you do in your workshop tonight?' thread

    Good thing I own an essential business and live in the south. That lockdown crap would have been rejected by me instantaneously. Or I would be really locked down. My dual citizenship Canadian friend can toss a handgun in his glove box or in his pocket here but a few hours north and he would...
  11. dhal22

    Scale Nelitz 1/3 scale Cub build

    Working on cutting inner root ribs tonight. Lots of great tools used tonight, scroll saw, drill press with hole saws, forstner bits, etc, disc sander.
  12. dhal22

    What beer ya drinking tonight?

    Long networking day, a rare 3 beer (Sweetwater 420), 3 hour lunch with a customer, then another beer (stone delicious) with another customer late afternoon and i get home to a wife and kids that want to go out for wings. Well, beer #5 was a Scofflaw Basement ipa and I called it a day.
  13. dhal22

    Scale Nelitz 1/3 scale Cub build

    I am cutting the inner ribs tonight. Hopefully framing this weekekend.
  14. dhal22

    What beer ya drinking tonight?

    Sweetwater 420 tonight.
  15. dhal22

    Scale Nelitz 1/3 scale Cub build

    Inner root ribs are a mess as well. No slot for main wing spar. Worse is inner root rib has undercamber as compared to outer rib. I'll just cut new ones to match the outer ribs.
  16. dhal22

    Scale Nelitz 1/3 scale Cub build

    The worst problem in solving the root rib problems is the kit cutter/ seller has stated many times that he had sold many many of Cub kits. Based upon that and insistence that the ribs were cut correctly I kept losing months of build time while staring at the ribs scratching my head. I have...
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