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Michaels Sonex #145 log
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Date: 5-18-2010
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Number of Hours: 0.00
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Brief Description: Bought nearly all flat 6061-T6 aluminium parts, CN
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I recently met a guy from Dandenong who was scratch building a Sonex (# 309) but gave up because he didn't have the time anymore. This person owns a sheet metal engineering company and thus has access to CNC machines and such to professionally make all his parts rather then scratch build them by hand. He 3D-modelled all the Sonex flat parts in CAD and uploaded the stuff into the machines and let them do the work. At the time he made his parts, the Sonex kit wasn't available so this was quite a nice thing to have. All the parts he made are all the parts I was going to make next, the flat parts, the parts he was going to make next are the parts I've already made, the angle parts. This worked out great! Anyway, long story short, after having the parts lie around for many years he finally decided to sell them (very painful decision for him but a wonderful thing for me), and I immediately decided to go check them out and buy them if they were ok. I've been working on this deal for a few months but since I had the overseas trip recently it took a bit of time. I paid a deposit before my trip to make sure he would hold the parts for me and last week I finally went over there to see the parts, they looked great and so off course bought them straight away. Today was the big day, delivery day, the parts arrived at my house! This will really take years off my project and the parts are made with a precision I could never achieve by hand, it's almost as good as buying a kit, in some respect even better! Rather then making flat parts for another year or 2, I will be able to start assembly very soon now. The pictures will tell the rest. There's an airplane puzzle in my garage!
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