The pictures attached to this represents three failures in a row in just a 30 minute span. I had noticed that the splice plate on the 1st spar I did was installed 180 degree out. So I had to remake a splice plate. I started by just placing the old plate on the aluminum and tracing it. I cut this one out but found that it was not as accurate as the originals that were made with templates being glued onto the aluminum. So I went to town and made copies of my prints to use for templates. I came back and glued a template onto the one I had just cut out using a traced pattern and found that it was way off. So I scrapped that one. I then glues another template to some aluminum and began to cut a new one. Got all finished up and the bandsaw blade snagged in the aluminum bending it. That was my last template. Started on the steel parts after that and found that my bandsaw blade got toasted as soon as it hit the 4130. I have to order a metal bandsaw now that I am getting into the tougher metal. My wood bandsaw has done fine for the thin, soft aluminum but it failed miserably on the 4130. I took the steel 4130 plate to a machinest and he is going to machine them out for me. I quit quickly after 3 failures in a row and went Christmas shopping.
