NebraskaQuickieBuilder

Waiting is fine....but delaying my dream cost me 20 years of flying and has caused the issues I'm having now with supply. With DOW stopping blue polystyrene production that will only get worse with time and as people figure out how bad things are I won't get any. I also don't want this to take 20 years to complete. It's not going to be 2 years either....but staying on top of things and pressing to get the items while I can will remain a priority to stay on my target time for completion. Never been a wait and see guy.....will wait for a little bit for something to present itself and then me and the bull are gonna wrestle horns. When May comes around and graduation of my son is over the garage is going to get quite busy and I hope all thr components are there....minus a built 0-200 but even then I have components ready when I am.

...my main concern isn't length or thickness.....it's the WIDTH.... As I mentioned above I don't mind a butt joint as we use them as per the plans. However I just can't join two pieces down the length to extend the airfoil shape to cut a 20 or 22 inch long airfoil from two 16 inch wide blocks. Not on a load bearing wing. An aileron....or trailing edge....maybe....but every ounce of alarm inside me along with experienced Q builders is enough to not be the guy to test it. I guess I'll buy $1600 (2 blocks x $390 plus $800 shipping) if I have to from the grumpiest east coast guy I've ever talked to, if I have to and feel my marriage needs stress with the project right away! Lmfao!

Butt joints end to end is of course used. Joints running the length of the structure at least in micro slurry (epoxy form) would as you've stated act as a spar.....and eliminate any flex or give in the wing and depending on where this stiffness is implemented could cause a stress point where flexibility was expected to occur compared to rigidness of an epoxy "spar". I can't imagine only doing it on one side..... The conversations I've referred to are coming from personal emails from reputable and known builders. Again, I'm going to have to take their experience with these Quickie Aircraft to heart since QA has been gone for so long. I'd rather be a success story printed in the local paper rather than a statistic printed in a FAA incident report. I appreciate your thoughts and suggestions.....I feel unfortunately they will not make it to my build table. I'll keep looking. If anyone around Oregon would have any of these blocks they'd let go to us I have a shipping offer to get it into Nebraska (or close) for me. Thanks everyone.

Also East Coast Lumber absolutely won't ship. Won't even consider. Actually, the guy I spoke with was not very pleasant....not even in the slightest. I think I've called every Google listing. Either no stock, wrong type, or unwilling to ship. The ones that will ship have a minimum order of $1000 or more and shipping is $750. Fun stuff!

Current Quickie builders have warned very clearly of NOT joining cores along the length of a core. Only at the section of the airfoil shape and really only sparingly. That's already been proven as a no no with accident reports. I won't join any cores in that fashion. I have 3 sets of spars now. I'm going to repair what I can and the rest will be recut where I deem it necessary. Going back to the original intent of this post is I'm in need of blue polystyrene billets that are 10x20x and at least 55. Would be best to have 10x24x55+ Still looking..... Fly safe!

The biggest reason is on the canard being the landing gear loaf bearer and having a ridge length down the length of the span would probably not be wise and would stress and break free as the canard flexes quite a bit. I'm not willing yo venture outside the envelope on this and may ne stuck foe a while until a resolution presents itself.....I don't want to kill myself or my 11 year old because dow stops foam production to save a fish (or stop homebuilders from using their products in a 3 wheeled liability concern). The ACS foam will work for my wing trailing edges but will absolutely be unapproved for the 18 inch wide wing and canard main cores per thr Quickie Builder communities and ultimately myself. Just too much of a risk of the unknown. I do appreciate your input and ideas though.....

It's the 16 inch width limit with Spruce when some cores need 18 to 20+ for the chord that is the main issue with their supply.

I hoping someone would sell me two blocks just over 50 inches so I can trim back to my working length after square up to 50 inches needed. 24 wide would absolutely rock the best and 10 inches tall....but 8 would work in a pinch. Being shorter should be able to save on shipping since UPS can handle that size and we get away from truck shipping and taking up 2 pallet spots.... I'm asking for a favor from people I don't know but my 11 year old and I really want to get past this and get to building. We have all the other components ready.....even time. 😀. I'm reaching out to a couple of the west and east coast lumber yards that do have 96in blocks if they'd cut them down to half sized and ship them but they have all told me to pound sand. I purchased templates online finally and my wife picked them up from the printers and they are headed home now. So that hurdle is cleared. This foam will be the last of the component issues.....the rest of the missing things are planned for and easily replaced now.

They are making polystyrene blocks but now they are gray in color and are impregnated (I was told) with a carbon product......which makes them slick and less desirable to rodents. However also makes them not suitable to epoxy to ...... I almost think Dow did it as much to stop building airplanes with it as stopping animals from eating it and dying...... We live in the land of liabilities now.

Unfortunately I need 20 and 24 inch wide blocks for the Q200 (LS1 Canard and wing) templates. ACS foam is not only short on width but on thickness too at only 8 inches. The bug foam billets are pretty hard to find since the blue EXTRUDED foam is not being produced by DOW anymore. I found a few billets on the east and west coast but with $750 to ship them I'm looking for other options to help us out. I know the specifications it's the "where are they" that I am shooting a flare for.....

I'm in bind and need help. I'm needing at least one 10x20x50 Blue billet block....or larger to recut a few cores. I purchased a kit that had cores precut by a dealer but bad storage practices got some damaged by mice and digging wasps or something. Some can be fixed....some cannot. I'm just needing some help because I can't find that size except for on the coasts and either people won't ship or its $800 to ship. Does anyone have a block or two to sell to me closer to Nebraska? Needing a miracle and some help for my 11 year old Q200 builder and I. Thanks!

Bought the Ultimate set of Q2/Q200 plans and templates. After a little site issue for download I did get them all. If you're looking for all the plans and appendix sheets this is what you need. Thanks Jon

So does the Q2/Q200 package have all the templates and all the large appendix sheets that include bulkheads, console pieces, phenolic sheet layouts, firewall, etc?

Sent you a direct message with contact info. Thanks!

Mice did bad things..... I have so e questions about the files. Would you be available for a call tomorrow late afternoon?