smedsky

We need more updates. Your thread is one of the more interesting. Besides, your students are some of the luckiest around.

camss69

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You can hide the valve if you want, really you can put it anywhere, but make sure it's realatively easy to get to just to make life a bit easier. There should be a nut that threads onto the valve, so you mount it onto the fuse obviously with the connection on the outside. There should be a fitting on the other side to hook and air line to which should be "t" tapped to the pressure tank. It's been a while since I've had a plane with retracts but I think you can pump them to 80 -100 psi safely. See how many times you can cycle the gear with that pressure, if it's not enough you can try a little more. Maybe someone else can give you a more definate answer on that one. And yes they have blown up before, but usually what happens is people overfill the tank and leave the plane in the hot sun at the field and the tank gets hot and then boom. It's pretty rare but it has happened.

NeoGenesis

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When I purchased my P-47 with a robart system already in, I was told that the previous owner usually hit around the 120PSI mark. I think the gear could be cycled reliably around 3 to 4 times. Then it was hit or miss whether they would work properly.




Neo

DaddySam

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Is that the 1/6 or 1/5 scale Spit? I've built the 1/5, and am in the process of refitting a different engine, and redoing the radio and retracts. If I can help I will.
Sam

hILLVILLE

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Center of the wing is done and we have really struggled with the sides. The trailing edge is "shaped" and it took some Internet research and a few emails to figure out what that means. We should make good progress today. I have a student who is building the first cockpit ever attempted by my students.

hILLVILLE

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Great day building. Finally able to get the right part of wing underway. There is some good stuff on the Internet and a gentlemen who had built one emailed me back within minutes.

hILLVILLE

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We need help from anyone who can show us how to finish the wheel wells on any plane. The struts will also have covers that close the opening in. Help!!!

wascamp

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Mr. Hill, I attemped to answer your question about finishing the wheelwells that you posed but I was not happy with my answer so I whipped up a little mock up for you. As you can see the card stock is glued onto the wing skin, in this case the lower, but it could as well be the upper. Lay the gearleg and wheel on the skin and use it to get an idea of how big the well is. Cut the stock , or 1/16 balsa so that it is tall enough to fill the area between the skins.
use the tire as a form to bend the stock a little over size. add the opposite skin and finish as appropriate.

I hope the pictures help

hILLVILLE

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You are incredible. Thank you so much. I now feel better about the wing, most seems very manageable. I sat today and scratched my head while most of the students played my old G1 simulator. Some kids actually enjoy watching me scratch my head. Pica wants sheet the side using the templates. The only templates I see are on the planes. To me, I'm having a hard time differentiating between 16 and 16A and how to incorporate the elevator. They give me 1/8 sheeting, but the space from the former to the fuse sides is much larger. Also, the nose has two different sized former?????????????????????????????

hILLVILLE

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Roger,
Thanks again for the help. Did not mean to take away from your Tripe building.

hILLVILLE

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Last night I read the manual 3 times and I discovered a paragraph that suggested there was a template for the fuse side walls. I came to school prepared to tear the room apart looking for the template once again on the plans. Before I started I moved a piece of typing paper laying on the plans. The paper read "Template". If my head wasn't attached...

EchoBravo

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Any progress on the Spit?