The International Cessna 170 Association

Anyone else need a stall warning horn face plate? I can make them.
I've been advising the Stratus Aviation Foundation on the '54 170B that is being raffled off for the foundations benefit: http://www.cessna170.org/forums/viewtop ... lit=raffle and http://www.stratusaf.org/raffle

The interior is missing a few items, one being the face place for the stall warning horn, the other the glove box door and glove box.

Anyway as I was riding around the patch looking over this treasures interior and what it was missing it occurred to me I could easily replicate the face plate on my CNC router and make the panel just a little nicer. It will not have the light as I don't have a socket and bezel but the light is not required.

My pictured prototype does not have the correct hole count which will be fixed after I determine I have the correct outside diameter.

Bruce,

Neat!

Tell us more about this CNC router? My Dad was a master sheet metal craftsman and could layout perfect parts in only a few minutes. Turns out....I'm not. (I'm a great welder, though, and he couldn't weld worth a darn. So, we're even.) I already have solidworks and am good with it. A router would save me a lot of time and headaches.

DEM

After a year or two of consideration and procrastination but mainly never putting together a list of stuff I thought would give me a high degree of success, I bought an Open Builds "kit" for their first generation C-Beam overhead gantry, CNC router.

Here is a link to a video of the kit being built: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVR8pABCHXI&t=4387s

I've had the machine coming up on a year and a half and have made some mods to it but it is basically stock. Over that time many other have made many mods to their C-Beams and in fact a new bigger better though more expensive C-Beam kit is offered today.

As this "kit" is really just a collection of raw parts that when assembled and adjusted works pretty well, it is certainly not the end all. The "kit" is scaleable. While my current working area is just under 12"x12", with little investment I could double or triple its working size by replacing two or 3 beams and a screw drive. I'm using a of the shelf Dewalt router to power my router and it is a good start. My router cost me just over $800 total.

As with many tools, just the operation of the router can become a hobby in it's own. And sometimes it is fun just to see if I can figure out how to cut something on it. Like a lathe, which I also own or a mill which I am looking to add to my collection. So far I've made a few thinks for my model airplanes such as a 1:10 ratio rubber band winder. And I'f now made a few things for full scale airplanes. But I'm really just getting started.

Pictures of the rubber winder I built by cutting gears and frame from scrap plexi. Other shafts I made on my lathe. And a video demonstration of how it works:
https://youtu.be/fmOojFiOAek