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My aluminum order came in, so I decided to work on fabricating the rib doublers from
some .050 thick 2024-O aluminum. Here's a sample using a ~.050 bend radius. The outside
is ~.100 bend radius which nests nicely in the .093 bend radius of the ribs.
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Cut rib blanks and calculated the bend line offset.
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After notching the corner and making the first bend, it occurred to me that the second
bend needs to be pretty much an exact match for the rib....
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...so, I nested the doubler on the outside of the rib and traced the bend line along
the existing flange of the rib. It's good that I did this as the bend was non-perpendicular
by probably .030 over the length of the doubler.
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...but using this technique, the doubler matches perfectly.
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Used the same approach to do the outboard doubler on the left side.
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