The Sirius Project

A Replica Adventure

2261 Savage Rd. Elizabeth, CO 80107 USA

​This is a project website covering the construction of a historic aircraft replica and my plans to recreate the epic flight Charles Lindbergh took in his Lockheed Sirius. Check out the history, my blog, and the construction log.

Big week

January 09, 2015  /  Todd Hunt

Well, the release of my videos went pretty well. Two exciting things happened. First, Eric Lindbergh, grandson of Charles and Anne, found my post on Facebook and shared it with is 6700 followers. Wow. Also, my heated paint cabinet design was mostly copied from one I saw on YouTube by John Hiesz. I posted a comment on his video and included my video. He responded and liked it and shared it with his channel. That made it the most popular video this week. Yay. 

I've been working a lot in the shop this week. I got the last layer on diaphragm 6 tonight. So I can pull it off tomorrow and begin to figure out how to cut the finger joint in it. 

Wed night I began to configure the mill for the rotary table when I discovered that the T nuts I had didn't fit. So I had to make some thurs night. They turned out good. Made a video about it too. 

Lastly, I spent the rest of tonight working on the tool post topper on the mill. I did some difficult radial cutting with the rotary table. Then, with the part about two thirds complete the mill started to make that grinding sound again. Couldn't get it to stop so I quit for the night. Hopefully I can get it working again this weekend. Ugh. 

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