![]() These copper tubes are a mere 1/8" in diameter and may be easily bent by hand or formed around an empty tin can or jar of the proper diameter. Even these are falling into disuse as more builders switch to electrical gauges. Just about the only copper tubes used in homebuilts are the oil pressure line and the primer lines. Builders of other types of aircraft can add windshield and canopy bows, flap handles and sometimes "S" shaped control columns to the bent tube list. Some of them also have tubular wing tip bows, fuselage formers and seat frames as well. These welded tube aircraft are ordinarily endowed with nicely curved tail surfaces made of small diameter steel tubing. That goes for bending steel tubes, copper tubes and aluminum tubes as well.Īnyone building a tube and fabric airplane will probably encounter more opportunities for developing his tube bending skills than he would if he were building a composite. But giving it your best effort does not mean you have to make a big production out of this tube bending thing. Being so visible, their fabrication merits your very best effort. However, I assure you that these few components are important and many of them are, for the most part, highly visible. FORTUNATELY, MOST OF our homebuilt projects do not require very much tube bending. ![]()
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