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RE: All Composite 1/7th P-40E Mould Build - 10/18/2012 1:56 AM   
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RE: All Composite 1/7th P-40E Mould Build - 10/20/2012 3:33 AM   
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RE: All Composite 1/7th P-40E Mould Build - 10/20/2012 9:40 PM   
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RE: All Composite 1/7th P-40E Mould Build - 10/21/2012 9:39 PM   
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Next, the lower centre section will be cast separate from the remaining two leading edge sections.






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RE: All Composite 1/7th P-40E Mould Build - 10/22/2012 12:56 AM   
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RE: All Composite 1/7th P-40E Mould Build - 11/9/2012 4:37 AM   
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RE: All Composite 1/7th P-40E Mould Build - 11/25/2012 2:27 AM   
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Spent some time organizing my new work area and got a good jump on the next mould section today.  The rest of the basement is clear and I hope to put some work stations along the walls to support kit production, should the project ever evolve that far.

 

 



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RE: All Composite 1/7th P-40E Mould Build - 11/26/2012 12:24 AM   
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Status: offline 		Slow, I have used those retracts. They are a pain to link up. I have for my TF P-40, the Robart air rotating retracts that are a very simple install.

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RE: All Composite 1/7th P-40E Mould Build - 12/1/2012 3:09 AM   
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Lower Wing Centre Section - Ready To Mould

 

Fear not my fine flying friends, we march ever closer….J

 

 



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RE: All Composite 1/7th P-40E Mould Build - 12/1/2012 6:59 AM   
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High Wear Resistance Room Temp Surface Coat (150g)

 



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RE: All Composite 1/7th P-40E Mould Build - 12/2/2012 1:24 AM   
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Continuous Strand Surface Veil
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RE: All Composite 1/7th P-40E Mould Build - 12/2/2012 4:12 AM   
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RE: All Composite 1/7th P-40E Mould Build - 12/2/2012 4:40 AM   
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Status: offline 		Slow,    I love all the pictures,  but they are so  close up,  it's hard to tell what's going on.    Can you back up a little bit? 

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RE: All Composite 1/7th P-40E Mould Build - 12/2/2012 4:42 AM   
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RE: All Composite 1/7th P-40E Mould Build - 12/2/2012 9:13 AM   
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I’ll let this set up overnight and tomorrow we’ll have just the leading edge sections to go.

 

 



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RE: All Composite 1/7th P-40E Mould Build - 12/3/2012 2:24 AM   
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Status: offline 		Removed the clay and formers. Next it's leading edge sections. Got a hand flipping the mould - GTG again

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RE: All Composite 1/7th P-40E Mould Build - 12/7/2012 5:16 AM   
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Note that I've overlapped the upper and lower sections to ensure that there is a guaranteed alignment along the leading edge.  If you look even closer you might notice that the inboard overlap is on the upper section while the outboard overlap is on the lower section...if you look even closer you might also notice that the flanges have draft in two planes...if you look still closer you just get bug-eyed (like me) 








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RE: All Composite 1/7th P-40E Mould Build - 12/9/2012 6:16 AM   
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Now more nights than I remember,
Did I bow to Glory’s charms.
Tonight My Lady smiles on me,
With bread in open arms.

Lo my world breaks open,
Dawning stairs that weren’t there,
Each step built with hand forged nails,
And dirty, unkempt hair.

Now steely arms spread open:
I have earned the right to fly.
The embers glow a quiet orange
As Glory casts my shadow on an ever sun filled sky.

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RE: All Composite 1/7th P-40E Mould Build - 12/10/2012 10:57 AM   
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Tomorrow we look inside. 


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RE: All Composite 1/7th P-40E Mould Build - 12/11/2012 2:07 AM   
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I’ll fix the broken flange pretty quickly, but what you see is what you get.  (prying with a screw still in place)

 

Everything worked out great !!  (but I have some new ideas for next time&hellip

 

Enjoy the video.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXUW5eBjwJA&feature=g-crec-u



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RE: All Composite 1/7th P-40E Mould Build - 12/11/2012 2:37 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hi there Slow Low, hope you don't mind but I've been lurking in the back ground for some time watching your work...............Man my Hat goes off to you, you are doing a wonderful job.

Just watched your video, the wing looks fabulous plus all the other work you have already done.

Congratulations, keep up the great work.

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RE: All Composite 1/7th P-40E Mould Build - 12/19/2012 6:01 PM   
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All trimmed up, clean and waxed.

Here's a tip - keep your bench waxed up good.




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RE: All Composite 1/7th P-40E Mould Build - 12/21/2012 2:05 PM   
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RE: All Composite 1/7th P-40E Mould Build - 12/22/2012 4:01 AM   
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Status: offline 		This is the intended configuration of the lower tool during layup.  As you can see, the leading edge will be integral with the lower skin.  I will try one with a spar that straddles the joint between the upper skin and the leading edge.  This may just be enough to make things nice and easy.  If not, then I may later make joggle flanges to bolt to the lower section that would form a glue lip when the joggle flanges were removed prior to final assembly and I will move the spar rearward in the chord.  I expect that I may have to vacuum bag the lower skin just to hold the cloth on the inverted mould face of the upper leading edges.  Worst case they can always be layed up separately and joined to the lower skin while still a little green.  If you look very closely you might see the LED's that I moulded into pockets recessed into the trailing edges at the ailerons.  They are embedded proud of the tool face in a pocket designed to give the pushrod for the ailerons a place to exit the wing.  This should provide nice lighting inside the tool during final assembly - cool or what...lol








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RE: All Composite 1/7th P-40E Mould Build - 1/7/2013 11:24 PM   
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...and this year should prove to be an exceptional one

The most common question I get is how much detail do you lose.
My standard answer is don't breath on your plug while you brush on your tool coat.
Here's a few quik pics of the top of the wing mould.
This should ease your fears about losing any detail, but be warned I don't use PVA, only a thorough coat of pure carnauba wax.

Too many pictures you say - too bad 












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