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RE: wingspan b-17 - 2/10/2008 10:10:35 PM   
timothy thompson


 

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RE: wingspan b-17 - 2/12/2008 7:00:21 PM   
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Status: offline 		lots more ill post pics tonight. brake air tank is in . I ordered the jr 12 ch 2.4 thats only the tx and rx! for 1400. 1300 for retracts. Im not rich but ill find a way to do all this. called mike he talked me through the ball turret area. all done. now i have to put in the waist gunners floor. not hard to do.

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< Message edited by timothy thompson -- 2/14/2008 12:08:37 AM >

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RE: wingspan b-17 - 2/13/2008 7:29:27 AM   
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Status: offline 		Nice progress. Your wife has got to be lovin this. :-)

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RE: wingspan b-17 - 2/13/2008 7:08:21 PM   
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Status: offline 		she really is ok with it! as long as most of the mess is cleaned up. She is disabled so we dont get many visitors. Our daughter married a soldier at 18 and now is 20. SO she lets me do this
upstairs. I couldnt bring it upstairs anyway

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RE: wingspan b-17 - 2/13/2008 7:35:37 PM   
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Status: offline 		Sorry to about her limitations. Does she enjoy watching you work on it and can she help? Sounds like a nice arrangement. I know if I told my wife I was going to build a B-17 in the kitchen, she would say "who's kitchen, you can't be talking about mine".

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RE: wingspan b-17 - 2/13/2008 8:33:23 PM   
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Status: offline 		she is in the living room on her computer where my tf b-25 is. our house looks like a hobby shop. planes and ww2 ships all over the place. if you want ship pics let me know ive got a lot

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RE: wingspan b-17 - 2/14/2008 3:38:34 AM   
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Status: offline 		nobody out there cares about mikes b-17?

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RE: wingspan b-17 - 2/14/2008 4:11:15 AM   
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Status: offline 		Keep going, the progress is looking great. I look forward to your new updates and build pictures. I like your house arrangements, if I brought my projects upstairs, I would be carrying an arm-load of sticks back to the basement. In my house, the upstairs is "woman-world" and the basement is "man-land".
Mike

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RE: wingspan b-17 - 2/14/2008 4:22:53 AM   
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Welcome to my world. I think she doesn't complain more about 'my world' because she knows, even after almost 35 years of marriage, if I wasn't downstairs tinkering with planes, I'd be upstairs 'tinkering ' with her.

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RE: wingspan b-17 - 2/14/2008 6:08:52 AM   
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Status: offline 		my wife broke her back had successful surgery but has a morphine pump as the pain never goes away. Im a high school math teacher of low level kids. If i didnt have this hobby i would go nuts. Kids today just do not care nor do their parents. Hell the kids raise themselves. we need to change the liberal way history is taught and stick to facts not personal beliefs.
The b-17 project wil take a while but to help i have a lhs that lets me take stuff and pay as i can. Hes a great guy and without him this cant happen. the radio 1400 and gear 1400 are the biggies. I need to cal mike and how much torque that elev servo needs as im going with all internal links on all surfaces. ill run each elevator with its own servo as i dont think there is one out there that could do the job. if im wrong let me know.
the tf b-25 is almost finished a few more rivets and screws in the cowl and shes done.

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RE: wingspan b-17 - 2/14/2008 12:37:43 PM   
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Status: offline 		Sounds like you have your hands full. I know all about working around the financial things. We raised 7 kids and if I hadn't been able to build, and rebuild my own stuff, I wouldn't have been able to participate much.

The JRPS615 servos have 181 oz of torque, dual BB, are cored, fairly fast, but have nylon gears. The big Hitec have even more torque and are MG, but the torque performance falls off after a short time is use, experiments have shown. Big elevators on that bird. I would think two on each side, right?

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RE: wingspan b-17 - 2/14/2008 3:20:57 PM   
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Status: offline 		mike designed them to be in the elev but im not having horns si if i do one high torque each side i should be ok. ill take 2 6v 3000mah packs and tie them parallel so 6v 6000mah will run servos ok thanks for the recc. mike says you dont have to double up. i got my glass parts and just got up so im opening the box now and will post pics. I took a personal day from work! (teacher call them mental days)

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RE: wingspan b-17 - 2/14/2008 3:49:53 PM   
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Status: offline 		Looking forward to the build. Keep it coming.

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RE: wingspan b-17 - 2/14/2008 4:00:51 PM   
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Status: offline 		THERE IS A GOD HES MIKE KRAMER! THOSE SUPERCHARGERS GIVE YOU CHILLS THE BALL TURRET IS INCREDIBLE AND ALL THE BEAUTIFUL CLEAR GLASS! PICS WILL COME LATER. MIKE FORGOT THE TOP TURRET GLASS SO ILL CALL HIM. MHE GIVES YOU A 2 FOOT BY I FOOT PIECE OF THICK VACUFORMED PLASTIC FOR all WINDOWS AND THEN A PAPER KEY SO YOU KNOW WHERE THEY GO!

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