[simpits-tech] Tiny error, big result...

[Roy Coates]

On Mon, 1 Dec 2008, Gene Buckle wrote:

> The windscreen components that I cut on Saturday had a tiny error in what
> I call the "root" angle.  This is the angle that the windscren frame
> "tilts" in.  This angle is based on the 2" wide "canopy bow" frame at the
> aft of the assembly.
>
> The error didn't show up until the large flat part was added to the
> assembly when I was gluing it up.  It turns out that the angle was off by
> .46 of a degree.


I did wonder when I looked at the pics. I remember thinking "gee, that
looks off by about 0.46 of a degree" and I was right!

*snarf*


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Roy Coates.
Dept of Engineering.
Liverpool University.
E-Mail: r.coates at liv.ac.uk
Tel: 0151 794 4862
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