AlRice
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<div align="center">Seat Fabrication
To build the seat frames, I drew the the layout on the table and screwed down the jig blocks. I mitered the tube ends just like I did with the tubes on the fuselage a station 0-0, I first rough cut them to a 45 on the bandsaw and then finished them on the 12" sander. I drew a guide line on the top of each tube to help keep them oriented when cutting and sanding.
<div align="right"><div align="left">Like everything else on the Skybolt fuselage, you should build a jig to hold
everything in proper position and the seats are no exception. This is the jig for the front seat. It's pretty simple since there are parallel tubes directly under the seat sides.
For the rear seat, I elected to use notched 1x2's to hold the seat frame in position.
Clamps hold the seat tubing in position. I leveled the fuselage laterally and then made sure that the seat bottoms were level from side to side.
When welding the seat frames to the legs try drilling a 1/16" hole in the seat frame to relieve the pressure and keep your welds from blowing out. Weld up the hole when done.
Be sure to measure from side to side in the fuselage so that the seats are centered and square to the fuselage.
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By now, notching simple tubes on the bench grinder, like those for the front seat back, is a piece of cake.
<div align="right"><div align="left">Like everything else on the Skybolt fuselage, you should build a jig to hold
For the rear seat, I elected to use notched 1x2's to hold the seat frame in position.
Clamps hold the seat tubing in position. I leveled the fuselage laterally and then made sure that the seat bottoms were level from side to side.
When welding the seat frames to the legs try drilling a 1/16" hole in the seat frame to relieve the pressure and keep your welds from blowing out. Weld up the hole when done.
Be sure to measure from side to side in the fuselage so that the seats are centered and square to the fuselage.
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