Heat necessary to bend fuselage sides?
Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2023 5:01 pm
We are an EAA Chapter in Sonoma , CA, just starting to build a Pietenpol. We have completed the fuselage sides using a jig , without any heat treatment of the longerons to aid bending. We are about to set up the fuselage and are wondering if we should use heat treatment - steam, hot water - help the bending process. What is members experience? If you used heat what sort of apparatus did you use?