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Old 07-24-2015, 03:06 AM   #32 (permalink)
PeterS
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Originally Posted by sendler View Post
I see now that you mean to taper the sides so they are narrower in the back. By "straight sided" I had assumed that you meant parallel. The Vetter tails are tapered at 16 degrees and flat sided just like your truncated tail that you are showing.
A correction, because of the required geometry with a flat sided taper the angle isn't 16 degrees , probably between 5 and 7 but as it starts further foreward the max width and the end width are the same as the Vetter..... no curve .
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