Marvin Story's Tubing Notcher
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Here it is, Marvin's life saving tubing notcher. The biggest feature is the being able to adjust the "V" so you can place the tube you're notching to a location different from just being centered on the tube. I'm pointing to the adjusting bolts in this photo. |
The notcher comes set up with a shaft suitable for a 1/2" chuck drill motor. I got it turned down to fit a 3/8" drill. It worked great with the smaller size drill. The block like assembly that the shaft goes through slides on the flat plate. |
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Adjusting the angle of the cut is accomplished by loosening the indicated knob and moving the slide/arm to the angle you need. The image below shows the little angle of the dangle protractor that I use for my work. (click HERE to see how to get one.) |
Adjusting the angle is easy. Just measure the angle you need from your fixture, transfer it to your handy-dandy Marvin notcher, tighten down the knob and get ready to make some metal smoke. The hole saws are standard size saws that you can get at any hardware/lumber yard/ store and just screw right on. |
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Making sure that you get the notches parallel when your notching both ends of a tube is easy. First, measure with a torpedo level on the top of the sliding tool/cutter assembly. It doesn't have to level, just make sure you notice where the bubble is. |
Then adjust the tube you're going to fish-mouth in the notcher so that the bubble in the already cut end is the same as the bubble in the other end. Cut your notch and it's done. |
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Here are some samples of the types of joints, centered and tangent that you can make with Marvin's notcher. |
Here's my Taube Fuselage. I laid up both sides, all verticals and diagonals in two evenings. One evening for each side. It makes what was normally a pretty tedious job, go fast!! |
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When Marvin's not out boring holes in the sky at 60 mph in his Siemens-Schukert, you can find him at the local dirt track going a heck of a lot faster in his race car(s). The notcher was originally developed to work with 4130 steel on race car frames like the one's behind him here. |
Marvin can be contacted at:
Marvin and Nancy Story
619 N. 75th. Circle
Kansas City, KS 66112
(913) 788-5435 (home)
(913) 284-9554 (cell)
email: Marvin
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