Today I hit a new low in the project.<\/p>\n
If you look at the picture above, you’ll see that my vise has oak jaws. I removed the vise’s original steel jaws and replaced them with the oak ones I fabricated to protect the longerons during the bending process, during which the longeron is clamped in place and bent using a dead-blow hammer.<\/p>\n
Well, it turns out that oak compresses more than I thought, and about halfway through the bending process oak jaws compressed sufficiently to expose the steel screws that hold them in place. I didn’t notice this was happening, and as I tightened down the vise, those screws left these nasty gouges on the longerons…<\/p>\n
This was a real demoralizer. I’m gonna have to figure out what to do next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today I hit a new low in the project. If you look at the picture above, you’ll see that my vise has oak jaws. I removed the vise’s original steel jaws and replaced them with the oak ones I fabricated … Continue reading ![\"Gouged](\"https:\/\/mightyrv.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/fuse_longeron_gouges.jpg\" "\\"fuse_longeron_gouges\\"")
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