sysiek

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I will send it to you for perfect fit ,make more and sale on rcu.

invertmast

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Sysiek,
Sounds good, i'll send you my shipping information.

Thomas

sysiek

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Super thanks.

invertmast

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I printed a new HUD as the first one i printed looked like a blob of molten plastic. This one is much better, not perfect, but better!

Dwayne.G

The F-14 is looking real good. I hope that I'll be able to add as much detail.

invertmast

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Since the correct scale Aim54 for the F14 is 23" long, i had to slice it into sectiona so as to fit the vertical space available in the printer.


Here is the first segment to get printed, which is the rear set of fins and the motor tube up to the forward set of fins.

invertmast

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Unfortunately, a certain pair of pancakes have been keeping me busy, so not much work to report on the F14. I have however been playing around with the 3D printer and printed out the mold for the nose wheel tire. I also printed out a cavity plug that i hope will assist in lightening these tires up a good bit. If it works well on this, ive got to so a set of tires for my buddies YA F-18..

Sparhawk

Nice Thomas.This has got to be one of the coolest threads on here! Keep it coming!

Dan

sysiek

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That looks super ,witch material you going to use for thi tires?

invertmast

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That is proprietary information, but its rubber.

sysiek

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Witch compound ?

invertmast

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That information i wont share. I have spent over $300 finding the right stuff to use. Sorry

sysiek

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No problem ,post some pictures of the rubber tire ,do some high speed test before the flight ,my friend did some tires for his sukhoy and on the second flight that think go 3 ways of the wheal .

invertmast

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After playing around with the mockup i did and looking back through some documentation, i realized i completed screwed up the majority of the geometry and the upper main gear strut. So i spent about 12 hours reworking the strut in CAD and printed a new upper strut. This one is mile stones better than the last as far as scale accuracy and the geometry is perfect as it will suck into the wheel well perfectly. I need to rework the mount design to work with the new geometry and add some details to the rest of the gear and the main landing gear design will finally be done.

The newest strut is in red.

myersflyers

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Thomas, did you buy the E3D v6 hot end extruder assembly in the US and how many different nozzles tips are currently using?
BTW, Nice job Though time consuming(photos videos, posting), we appreciate your efforts!

invertmast

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I did. I got it from printedsolid.com

i got nozzle sizes from .2mm to .6mm, but currently only use the .4mm nozzle

DrScoles

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Awesome Thomas! Since you have the done the work on some of this stuff, can you shrink ray it in CAD and make parts for us Skymaster F-14 owners? Might offset some of your costs. The instrument panel would be nice to have. No idea how hard it is to reduce the scale.

invertmast

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I can, its only a matter of applying a scale to it.

The downside to my cockpit is you will probably lose every bit of room under the canopy area to fit the cockpit as it is full depth. If you'd like, i can attach a pdf of my panels that you can print to see how they fit. I know they will be to large, but you can trim them to size to fit and then i can scale them to fit the dimension.

Or if someone just had a F14 they wanted built, i could just do a build for them and the cockpit for a good price

raron455

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I am still following this post, I can not wait to see the finished Jet,, I am amazed by the talent and ability you have,, I think you will have once of the nicest Rc jets on earth,,

Migf117

Thomas

Your work is just so AMAZING..... WOW....

One of our friends just bought the F-14 from skymaster, it is a great looking plane.

Can't wait to see yours on its wheels..

Good job mate, keep it up.

Cheers
Moa

invertmast

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Thanks Moa!
Ill probably have this thing sitting on a set of 3D printed landing gear before I even send the files to the machinist. My landing gear design is somewhat complicated (30+ parts) but will result in a bullet proof gear that shouldnt wear out. Unfortunately, it'll be $$$$$

Migf117

I'm sure it will be a lot of $$$$$$$

But the end result will be very rewarding..

That is why I chose the F117 to build, it is much more simple.

mr_matt

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Hi Thomas,

Did you ever think of adapting your CNC router to 3D printing?

invertmast

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Nope, I don't want to have to switch from one thing to the other because it is nice to be able to have two machines running at once. The other problem is most of my prints are 2+ hours long (cockpit panels are 9-18hrs!), I don't want to hog up my cnc router that much...


And like they say "jack of all trades, master at none". Each machine has its dedicated purpose which makes it easier to fine tune each one for that purpose

mr_matt

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Yes I understand. I saw in another thread about some tuning/improvements you wanted to do to your printer and I thought maybe an open source router design might offer those opportunities.