Date: Mon, 3 Jul 1995 16:04:42 -0500 From: campbell@ee.umn.edu (faculty S. A. Campbell) Subject: Opinions please >From a freshman builder - Assume that one is happily converting a section of his/her home into a warehouse of pieces of aircraft parts and the gods happen to bestow a couple kilobucks on you that you hadn't counted on. If one chooses to go to aerocanard to buy some prebuilt Cozy component(s) in order to speed up the building process, which ones will provide the most return in terms of reduced time and/or difficulty for the dollars? Steve Campbell From: Marc J. Zeitlin Subject: Opinions please (fwd) Date: Mon, 3 Jul 95 23:57:17 EDT Steve C. asks: >>From a freshman builder - Assume that one is happily converting a section >of his/her home into a warehouse of pieces of aircraft parts and the gods >happen to bestow a couple kilobucks on you that you hadn't counted on. If >one chooses to go to aerocanard to buy some prebuilt Cozy component(s) in order >to speed up the building process, which ones will provide the most return in >terms of reduced time and/or difficulty for the dollars? Interesting question. I'd probably vote for pre-cut foam cores (assuming they're very high quality). There's nothing that will save you tons of sanding time down the road like well hot-wired cores. (This is assuming you can't make perfect cores the first time - not necessarily a good assumption). Buying the turtleback molded (if you weren't already planning on doing so) will save a lot of build and sanding time, as well. -- Marc J. Zeitlin E-Mail: marcz@an.hp.com Date: Tue, 4 Jul 1995 10:13:30 -0400 From: SidLloyd@aol.com Subject: Re: Opinions please In a message dated 95-07-03 17:07:14 EDT, campbell@ee.umn.edu writes: >From a freshman builder - Assume that one is happily converting a >section >of his/her home into a warehouse of pieces of aircraft parts and the >gods >happen to bestow a couple kilobucks on you that you hadn't counted >on. If >one chooses to go to aerocanard to buy some prebuilt Cozy >component(s) in order >to speed up the building process, which ones will provide the most >return in >terms of reduced time and/or difficulty for the dollars? Definately the canard and wing quick build kits. Heck, depending on the amount of kilobucks the Gods have bestowed, the the spar and Jeff will jig and drill the wing spars in the wing quick build kit to the spar for you. Or, he now has a whole Cozy IV tub. Money vs time. Sid