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RE: SE5a 1/6 Scale - 2/24/2007 1:04:37 PM   
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RE: SE5a 1/6 Scale - 2/25/2007 11:17:36 PM   
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RE: SE5a 1/6 Scale - 3/1/2007 7:07:43 PM   
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Status: offline 		congratulations very good model

please for you get original wood color for make wing strut which color you used......i think it must be protect from fuel (methanol+sintetic oil) please can you say to me the procedure to paint

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RE: SE5a 1/6 Scale - 3/2/2007 1:03:51 AM   
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Status: offline 		Thanks Avionette.
I use latex wall paint for my colors. Then I use clear polyurathane varnish to fuel proof.
For natural wood parts, I use a stain to get the color and spar varnish to get the gloss and to fuel proof.
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RE: SE5a 1/6 Scale - 3/3/2007 8:50:47 PM   
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Status: offline 		When I did my cockpit, I didn't do the aileron horn because it was under the seat and couldn't be seen. Well, with the light window for the instrument panel cut out, you can see under the seat
So, this morning I added the horn and rigging for the ailerons. Also, I started working on the cockpit coming(not sure how to spell that).
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RE: SE5a 1/6 Scale - 3/9/2007 1:02:15 AM   
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Status: offline 		I did some experimenting with the PC10 color. The chip I got from Replicraft is a dark green. So I decided to use the formula in "SE5a in Action", thinking it would be more brown. 1 part lamp black to 250 parts yellow ochre(iron oxide). Soot and rust should be brown, right? Wrong. the color is a perfect match for the Replicraft chip. Dark Green. SO, that's that. the plane will be dark green.
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RE: SE5a 1/6 Scale - 3/9/2007 9:25:08 AM   
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can i use for natural wood parts an impregnate wood color and spray polyuratane clear color?

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RE: SE5a 1/6 Scale - 3/9/2007 9:34:17 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hi Avionette.
I'm not sure that I understand your question. Polyurethane can be used to seal and fuelproof many surfaces. I have used it over natural wood, water based stain, oil based stain, latex paint, and oil based paint. Let us know what you're trying to do, and I'm sure someone here can help.
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RE: SE5a 1/6 Scale - 3/9/2007 10:48:04 PM   
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Status: offline 		Hallo sorry if my englysh is not good i'll try to write better

I have to build a pete'n poke airmodel from great planes company and se5a from dinaflyte company and i'd like get the wing strut whit original wood color.
I have to my home spray fuelproof clear and oil based stain or oil based paint so before i use wood stain and then I use clear spray fuelproof to get the strut fuel resistant ......... is it right?

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RE: SE5a 1/6 Scale - 3/10/2007 12:12:25 AM   
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I have to my home spray fuelproof clear and oil based stain or oil based paint so before i use wood stain and then I use clear spray fuelproof to get the strut fuel resistant ......... is it right?

Yes, you can do it the way you just said or just spray it on the wood with no stain if you want to.
You can also paint them with epoxy thined with alcohol if you want to but the spray will be easier I imagine.

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RE: SE5a 1/6 Scale - 3/10/2007 12:35:49 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hi Tim. I've been visiting your build every day, but for some reason, my browser seems to be stuck on page 23
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RE: SE5a 1/6 Scale - 3/10/2007 12:50:02 AM   
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Status: offline 		Steve you are funny !

I have been working on it but havnt posted lately.

I have several pictures that I am ready to post. I might do it tonight.

I put a Ram Machine gun sound on it. It's pretty loud but I dont know if it's loud enough and it isnt as clear as I would like but it's alright.

I just have some exstreamly small little things to do now and I am ready to attack the scale exhaust I want.

And that will be it !!!

Have you ever put a scale exhaust like the one for your Se5a and my Bristol ? Im am worried that it will choke down the engine so I plan on making it and tring it on a test stand first before fling it.

I want it to go down the whole side of the fuselage behind the cockpit.


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RE: SE5a 1/6 Scale - 3/10/2007 1:46:05 AM   
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Ah, the scale exhaust. I haven't gotten that far yet. It has to be scale, if at all possible. I'm going to try making it out of brass tubing, with high temp silver solder. You are right about testing it out first. Back pressure will be the deciding issue. The SE5 at 1/6 scale has a 1/2" diameter pipe, so I hope it will be enough. Has anyone else used scale exhaust? Any help will be much appreciated.
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RE: SE5a 1/6 Scale - 3/10/2007 1:34:13 PM   
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I have taken a couple shots at building my own mufflers, ie., scale exhaust systems. IIRC you will be using a four-stroke engine. Their exhaust runs hotter than a 2-cycle. I "silver soldered" an exhaust for a Curtiss A-12 with Enya VT-240. It completely fell apart the first time I opened the throttle above idle. I don't know the temp. rating of the I used solder; one of my friends gave it to me. I ended up with a lot of screwed joints. I did a lot of work to build the mufflers and scale exhaust on my HS-129 (2-stroke engines). All the prototyping was done with steel sheet metal and all joints were fastened with sheet metal screws and then soldered. After I got the desired results another friend in the sheet metal business welded copies out of aluminum. During testing I set up a manometer to measure back pressure/tank pressure and used a noise meter at established locations. I experimented until I matched the back pressure from the factory muffler and actually got it a little quieter. Noise reduction was a real issue and I did not make any real progress until I followed the methods in an old MAN article written by a European. Must be a really old article because there were no color photographs of ARF's and there were--heaven forbid--mathematical equations!! I would be glad to copy and mail it to you. The 1/2" pipes probably won't be a restriction--and you could always use both of them. Noise levels are restricted in the FAI rules.
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RE: SE5a 1/6 Scale - 3/10/2007 9:07:52 PM   
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