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Hi Tom, Don't beat yourself up too much. Your work looks clean, and functional.If your building just for show, that's one thing, but it's hard to see the small details at 50 or 60 MPH in the air. I to, have been building since I was a kid. I think the first gillows kit was a rubber powered biplane, that flew preety well. My last one was a P-51, but I crash it when the .049 engine went dead. As far as your exhaust, looks great. What if you were to cover the surrounding area with alluminum, the wieght would be little if you use the metal from a coke can. I think I have a picture or two. I wish I had a better camera to document my work as you have, since I have found the ideas and help invauable off these threads. I would like to thank several of the guys like Corsair Jock, Gibbs,and Rocketman for their fine work and sharing the hobby with all of us. This is,TP 60 Corsair my first scale build as well, and I'm have a great time both building and learning about the history of the plane itself. keep up the good work.I found one of the pictures, but wasn't the one I was looking for. Sam
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Hi Tom
Been following your effort and it looks like it is comming along great Nice pic's, but I do have a question how much of the box did you cut away at the fire wall?
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As far as your exhaust, looks great. What if you were to cover the surrounding area with alluminum, the wieght would be little if you use the metal from a coke can. I think I have a picture or two.
I was thinking along the same lines. I plan to use Flite Metal for the first time on the cowl ring.
Tom
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I wish I had a better camera to document my work as you have, since I have found the ideas and help invauable off these threads. I would like to thank several of the guys like Corsair Jock, Gibbs,and Rocketman for their fine work and sharing the hobby with all of us.
Hi Sam,
The trick to get those good close up pictures is to use the Macro feature of the camera. If you have a little point and shoot digital you may want to look for a symbol in the menu or on the dial that has a flower. That's usually the macro feature. If you don't see anything you can always read the manual.
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Hi Guys, Since I am in a bit of a stall, I thought that I'd send a couple of pictures showing an antenna mast used for the switching of the reciever (Idea from CorsairJock) and fuel hatch, ( idea from a dutchman Arvid) which will probably be used for air fill, and a switch or two for lights.
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We've located our switches and air filler valve in the same place. We haven't cut out the round access hatch yet, but the underlying stuff is all safely built in under the sheeting. I have an idea about how to close it with magnets and have no visible closures, latches, etc, but I haven't fully figured it out yet. That's been perhaps my biggest learning. Figure out everything mechanical before closing up the fuse and wing. Run all of the servos, linkages, throws, etc and test them all before closing the sheeting. So much nicer than having to retrofit everything.
Interesting thought on the antenna mast for a switch.
Tom
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FOUND IT! The post that describes my antenna mast/ ON/OFF switchis #389
Hey, I want to thank you guys for keeping this not only alive, but thriving with new ideas as well. This has to be one of the longest running, helpful building/ modifications thread ever. SMUGator: your contributions are really appreciated, and I really hope to meet up with some of you guys at future warbird events.
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No mods to report on this weekend. Just did mundane stuff like building the throttle linkage and fine-tuning the pull-pull on the tailwheel. I did finish planking the bottom of the fuse tonight. I still get excited when a big part starts to look like the real thing. Sam, I got your PM about the air cooler vents under the wing, but my shop was such a mess that I didn't pull the wing down and photograph them. If you get to a point where your really need to see them, let me know. Otherwise, I'll shoot them in the next week or so when I need to pull the wing down to build the mounts.
Tom
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Sam, this part of the build is still pretty rough, but this will give you an idea of how I'm doing the oil cooler exits. I didn't get them perfectly scale, as I had already gotten too far along in the wing framing before I caught the problems in the outline. I may make some styrene outlet covers as well.
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Getting pretty close to mating the wing and the fuse now. The scale flap system we came up with caused us to have to modify the wing saddles a bit to accomodate the linkages. The clearances are tight, so don't try this one without doing some very careful drawings. It's in now, and I couldn't be happier with it. Works beautifully. Will do some similar mods in the belly pan to emulate the scale flap hinges that Luke pointed out a while back. Last shot is of the airplane pumping iron while the epoxy on the wing hold down plate cures.
Tom
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After dinner, I got the wing mounted. I couldn't resist dry fitting the rest of the parts and getting a first glimpse of something that looks like an airplane. Lot's of work left, but the first assembly is always cool!
Tom
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