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Old 12-21-2014, 01:59 PM
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How do you join the Cub Brotherhood?
Old 12-21-2014, 02:31 PM
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You just did. Welcome, Cubman will come along sooner or later and give you a number.
Old 12-21-2014, 06:52 PM
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I am thinking about not wearing my T shirts until summer and then just showing up at the field with it on. The boys will be envious for sure.

Welcome Allscale1
Old 12-21-2014, 09:53 PM
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Actually, John M, it's the GP Stearman PT-17 site. I started getting emails from a couple of them and you were there from the time you chided me about being over there stirring up trouble! LOL! I had not received any emails from the cub brotherhood forum till just today since who knows when?! It's good to be back.
catch up with you at a later date. It's time for bedi-by.
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Old 12-21-2014, 11:07 PM
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Oh, yes I remember that, LoL... when you said "Stearman site" I thought you meant on another forum web site other than rcuniverse.... you were referring to the Stearman PT-17 thread here on RCU... you made it sound like you were thousands of miles away on some road trip .

So you've been over there this entire time stirring up trouble, and didn't pop in to see what was going on here... I'm going to have to go over to that thread and see what mischief you've been up to .

Things are a bit slow here in the cub brotherhood... acdcii got his 1/5 cub almost ready for the maiden flight, color scheme came out nice... just look back a few page to see it in its final stages.


One of our recent cub brotherhood members Leroy, has a build thread going... he's building a highly scale detailed super cub from a balsaUSA kit... here's the link, I know you appreciate excellence at its best.


http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/kit-...sa-j3-kit.html


Sleep tight


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Old 12-22-2014, 12:02 PM
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Thanks John, but I haven't been on the Stearman site but a couple of times. It came in and I answered it. I hadn't had an e-mail from the Cub brotherhood site for a long time and I thought it went down. I hate going through the lists just to find it again and I'm sure there is an easier way than that but as I have said before, I'm computer stupid and don't retain much that I learn. Even if I write it down, I loose it! Very frustrating! Must be from my pot smoking days! That combined with getting up in age is a double whammy! I will look into the build site. I'm sure it will be good.
Coming up on my first anniversaries of my heart attacks. Dec. 28th and Jan 16th.
Going in tomorrow for a procedure. Their gonna scope my pee pee and clip a piece of skin around the prostate in the urethra and biopsy the bladder. Of course their gonna send me to la la land. So, anyway, not much else going on here. We have had about two feet of snow so far and it is suppose to rain for a couple of days at least through the 25th.
Catchyalater dude.
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Old 12-22-2014, 12:46 PM
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bb3, go to the top of the page, there is a tab called "Thread tools" click on it, then click on "subscribe to this thread", then click on add subscription. From then on all you have to do is open "settings" on the forums main page.
Old 12-22-2014, 09:00 PM
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!hanks Acerc Went there and it indicated that I am already subscribed! Now, if there was a 1-2-3 to posting pictures. I still haven't figured that one out. Can't seem to remember from one time to the next. All those years of pot smoking! Been thirty years since. Stays with you for a long time.
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Old 12-23-2014, 07:12 AM
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Originally Posted by bigbird3
!hanks Acerc Went there and it indicated that I am already subscribed! Now, if there was a 1-2-3 to posting pictures. I still haven't figured that one out. Can't seem to remember from one time to the next. All those years of pot smoking! Been thirty years since. Stays with you for a long time.
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Click on "reply" at lower right of screen. At the top of the reply box, click on the square box with an x across it. You will see : "Add an Image from your computer

Allowed Filetypes: jpg, jpeg, png, gif"

Select where your file is, Computer or url, likely your computer. Click on the "select files" box. Select the source file name, which must be a jpg, jpeg, png, or gif type. Then click "upload files" to add them to your message. Good luck.

BTW, my very first RC plane, built with my son in mid 80's, was a scratch built RCM Big Bird 2. Flew it with an HB .15. Flew it a lot and rebuilt it a lot. Learned a lot from it also.
Merry Christmas to All and to All a Good Flight.

Sincerely, Richard
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Old 12-23-2014, 04:12 PM
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Richard, if you are speaking of the tool bar with a square box with an X, there is none. Only one with an AA with an X. Don't know the reason why I wouldn't have this X-box! Help?
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Old 12-23-2014, 04:50 PM
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Here is a pictorial of what to do to post pics. If this don't work let me know and I'll do a video! lol
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Old 12-23-2014, 05:14 PM
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Originally Posted by bigbird3
Richard, if you are speaking of the tool bar with a square box with an X, there is none. Only one with an AA with an X. Don't know the reason why I wouldn't have this X-box! Help?
Thanks
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All the way to the center of the tool bar are two "world" images, then the square box with an X I referred to. When you put the curser on the box it says "insert image"

ACERC's approach will also work, but seems more complicated to me. Good luck

Merry Christmas to You and Yours

Sincerely, Richard
Old 12-23-2014, 05:21 PM
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This is where Richard is speaking of and by showing I also realized it is much easier. Thank's Richard, I learned something new today!
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Old 12-24-2014, 06:41 AM
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Merry Christmas fellow Cub lovers!!!!!
Old 12-24-2014, 07:26 AM
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Well! Looks like I did it! This is the third scale
AMR cub floor board and seats with peddles and sticks that work. Saw this floor board in a Husky at our little airport and fell in love with it. It is 1/8th ply crutch with walnut and tiny tiny burle maple 1/64th veneer. the seats are balsa crutch with full sheet burle maple on bottom and three strip alternating colors banding seat bottom and back. I'll post this banding next. Turned out pretty good.................i think.
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Old 12-24-2014, 07:35 AM
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Well, seems it only wants to give me a URL option. Can't seem to get it to work again. Perhaps later.
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Old 12-24-2014, 08:48 AM
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Bird,
The seat and floor looks nice, I also have a 1/3 AMR Cub. I built production model #1 for a review in FLY R/C magazine a few years ago. I didn't go overboard with details as I was crunched to meet a deadline. I had 2 months to build and fly the plane and write the review. Was a bit of a tall task at the time.

I am now finishing up an overhaul of the Cub after it suffered some hangar rash in my trailer, a shelf fell and broke the fin and rudder. I stripped all the Solartex and recovered the plane in fabric finished with Stits products. Also installing a new engine as the old engine we a PITA to start.
Here are a few pics: I have a thread going in the crash and rebuild forum.
Later!!
Anthony

BTW: When I post pics I clicked on the "Go Advanced" button and then type the message there and click the manage attachments tab below and select the pictures there for uploading.
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Old 12-24-2014, 09:16 AM
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Hi WacoNut, Do you use the "attachments" option or the "insert image" optipn? I don't see a "manage attachments" choice.

Thanks.
Merry Christmas to All and to All a Good Flight.

Sincerely, Richard
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Club Saito #635; Saito 56, 100, 120abc, 130T, 180
Kadet Brotherhood #96; Mk 1 Kadet, Kadet Junior,
Sig Kougar, Sig 1/4 Cub, Sig 1/4 Spacewalker II
Carl Goldberg Tiger Club Member # 81, Eaglet, (soon to be Jr Tiger), Eagle/ Tiger (RIP)
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Old 12-24-2014, 09:54 AM
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Originally Posted by WacoNut
Bird,
The seat and floor looks nice, I also have a 1/3 AMR Cub. I built production model #1 for a review in FLY R/C magazine a few years ago. I didn't go overboard with details as I was crunched to meet a deadline. I had 2 months to build and fly the plane and write the review. Was a bit of a tall task at the time.

I am now finishing up an overhaul of the Cub after it suffered some hangar rash in my trailer, a shelf fell and broke the fin and rudder. I stripped all the Solartex and recovered the plane in fabric finished with Stits products. Also installing a new engine as the old engine we a PITA to start.
Here are a few pics: I have a thread going in the crash and rebuild forum.
Later!!
Anthony

BTW: When I post pics I clicked on the "Go Advanced" button and then type the message there and click the manage attachments tab below and select the pictures there for uploading.
Very nice indeed Waconut! I really like AMR's build process. The new finish looks very nice. Like working with Stits. We, a friend and I. put it on the wings of his full size Stearman. Learned a few things about shrinkage with it and not to apply it like monocote or model fabric! Good knowledge to have if applying it to models!
Thanks for the heads up on the advanced thing. Will try to put multiple pic's up.
One thing i did with the cub mentioned was to reduce the windshield bulkhead's inside diameter to around half an inch in all. This allowed for a more scale covering job of the inside. It was a 'female dog' to do for sure but what an effect! Well, looking forward to more chatting about this great bird.
Catcha later.
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The aluminum sheeting and parts is made from Roof Flashing from the lumber yard! It is tempered and scores and cuts easily enough with a #11. The blade must be used pretty good and sharpened with 220 grit to work. Just keep sharpening it. I cut mine on my glass table. It is a 3-0 door (36") with two layers of glass recovered from a sliding door that lost it's gas integrity. Two layers because I didn't have anywhere safer to store the second one! If you cut the aluminum on a wooden surface, you will end up grooving the wood and perhaps ruining the cut. Same goes for cutting covering! Most of the time you can score it a couple of times and then gently and progressively bend it back and forth and it will snap apart. Multiple scores are recommended because it will not snap with only one score, you could bend or over tweak it and they won't come out! I also found that putting a sheet in a roller can't get tight enough to roll the part, like for a turtle deck like the one on my Pawnee in my Gallery. It had to be hand rolled! Very tricky but doable. It is that tempered! The gasket for the windows and front cuffing on the windshield was made from split electrical wire insulation. The trick here is, in some cases, not to cut it the first time but, if it will, go ahead.. Take your time, it will take some practice. make a hard wood trough that will hold the wire still and pin one end to the base. Lay the blade at an angle resting on one edge of the trough as a guide and keep your finger on the wire close behind the blade and cut it slowly.
There you go! It really turned out nicely.......................I think!
Once more.............I sign off.
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Old 12-24-2014, 10:05 AM
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I, as well, use the flashing and like it's capabilities.
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Old 12-24-2014, 10:05 AM
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Patience

I has none

Nice work!

On that Stits, thats the finish, or the fabric? How does it compare to dope and Koverall? I like the look of a sprayed finish, but when I sprayed the dope it came out flat and did not cover well, and used a lot more than I had thought it would. I stuck to brushing it , but the white streaks too much.
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Originally Posted by spaceworm
Hi WacoNut, Do you use the "attachments" option or the "insert image" optipn? I don't see a "manage attachments" choice.

Thanks.
Merry Christmas to All and to All a Good Flight.

Sincerely, Richard
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Spaceworm, I don't mean to take anything from Waconut but I found that clicking on the icon third from the right on the tool bar in the comment area will lead you to the picture option. In that option, the first time you get there it will give you the option to brouse after you click on 'basic' at the bottom. The next time, in my case, will give you an option for a URL. Just above that are two options to choose from, 'from computer' and 'from 'URL'. Click on 'from computer' and it will start you all over for pics. Just keep doing it till it tells you that you can't put any more in that 'reply'. It's really very simple. If I can do it, you can too. There is your inspiration for the day! LOL! Show us whachu got!
Take care. I'll be out in the shop for a while, got birds to build! Check in on you later.
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Old 12-24-2014, 10:11 AM
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I, as well, use the flashing and like it's capabilities.
I use flashing, but printers lithoplate is thinner and harder and useful for some applications as well. Can be gotten for free or for a couple dollars a sheet (used) from small newspapers.

Merry Christmas to All
Old 12-24-2014, 10:14 AM
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Hi Bird, yes, see my post #3062 here.

Merry Christmas to All
Old 12-24-2014, 10:21 AM
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I use to use printers plate also but they closed the news paper here and it is fifty miles away in any direction! Besides, with printers plate you are limited to size. Flashing is in a continuous roll up to twenty feet and in a number of widths! The only back lash is that it wants to unroll and damage itself. It is hard to keep it from unrolling without damaging it, It can be done, just a PITA! Kinda like a watch spring! BOIOIOIOIONG! If you ever let it get away from you, it will PI-double-is you off!
Also, there is no ink to clean off just a very light mist of lubricant. Rubbing alcohol works nicely.
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