On Aug 20, 3:58 pm, wright1902glider wrote:
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I've found that when restoring or reproducing vintage things,
attempting to find the correct materials is a real challenge, if not
impossible. When I built my Wright machine, the only easy materials to
find were the steel rod, sheet, and wire.


A few years ago I got involved late in a project to make Wright Flyer
replica wings. We covered one and left the cloth folded back on the
other to display the internal construction. The wings are now in the
museum at Kitty Hawk.

Some of the wood was ash the rest spruce. Ash is available locally
throughout most of the Northeaster quarter of the US, I don't know
where the spruce came from. I was told that the Wright Brothers
had theirs shipped in from West Virginia as spruce is not native
to Western Ohio. The cotton muslin was bought from a company
that made it for filter bags. We used Aluminum sheet nstead of
tin. I don't remember where we got the string, but do recall that
it was waxed and sticky.

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FF