abufletcher

The details begin to emerge.

#6 was used to connect two (or three) panels.
#4 was used between sets of panels.

Trev

I'll go with what GF wrote, The script (is that suetterlin?) is hard to decipher!


1) Endflansch mit Ventil
2) Normal Stützen
3) Endflansch mit Ablasshahn
4) Zwischenstück
5) (?)Stützen
6) Dichtungsring
7) Enddichtung
8) Schräger Stützen
9) Breiter/Becken/Kreuz(?)Stützen
10) Glatter End(?)Flansch

abufletcher

1- Endflansch mit Ventil (end flange with valve)
2- Normal Stützen (normal supports)
3-Endflansch mit Ablassbahn (end flange with drainage spout)
4- Swischen Stück (in-between piece/connector)
5- Kurvestützen (Kneestützen) (curved/knee support?)
6-Dichtungsring (gasket ring)
7-Enddichtung (end gastket)
8- Schraeger Stützen (angle support)
9-Breiter Stützen (wider support )
10 Glatter Endflansch (flat end flange)

This all gives a better sense of how the H-Z radiation went together. But man oh man are those parts teeny at 1/6 scale! And there's another of those darned M2 wingnuts!

abufletcher

I remember that during my first trip to Germany (in the summer after high school), I showed some of this old script to my host and he told me "Ich kann kein Deutsch" (I can't "read" German). That made no sense to me since he was talking to me in German! But he meant old German script.

Suetterin lessons:

http://www.suetterlinschrift.de/Englisch/Sutterlin.htm

abufletcher

At 1/6 scale the tubes themselves (and I'm going with round instead of square) would be 4mm and the flanges and fittings about 5-6mm. I now have both 4mm aluminum tube and 4mm aluminum rod (for the curves) and also 5mm aluminum tube and rod. I may use some brass tubing for the support pieces and to make the fuselage brackets themselves.

I wonder if I can get away with just printing the flanges on thick photo paper and cutting them out. Hmm...no. Because the flanges hold the connecting rods.

abufletcher

A whole sheet of flange templates. []

ulpilotrmh

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Hey Don:

Were the radiators on both sides of the CI?

Russ

fliegertom

Puhhh....es tut mir leid, das ich nicht da war, als ihr das abgehandelt habt! [:@]
Ich hätte bestimmt helfen können.
Habt Ihr aber trotzdem super gemacht!
Wenn noch Fragen.......bitte!

Also, here are the results of the german jury ;-) :

1. Endflansch mit Ventil
2. Normal-Stutzen
3. Enflansch mit Ablaßhahn
4. Zwischenstück
5. Kniestutzen
6. Dichtungsring
7. Enddichtung
8. Schräger Stutzen
9. Breiter Stutzen
10. Glatter Endflansch

BTW

Meine Albatros C1 1556/15 hat einen leading-edge radiator!

Mein Duff

Ja Tom was ist Dir los?? Genau dann wann wir Dich brauchen bist du nicht auffindbar

fliegertom

.......sorry! [:@]

abufletcher

Well, that's no fun at all! Thanks for cleaning up the spelling on the parts.

abufletcher

Yup. Fun, fun, fun.

abufletcher

Trying to drill holes in sets of 16 flange sheets at a time (so that all the holes like up when mounted). When I stop breaking drill bits, I'll post some progress.

avionette

Hello
sorry my english limited

when you laminate parts do you use alipahatic glue mixed with water?
regards

abufletcher

Yes. For laminating the strips of corrugated paper for the radiator panels I'm using simple white glue mixed with water. I would later clearcoat the whole radiator.

abufletcher

Anything you can't say in English, go ahead and post in Italian! Since I speak Spanish and GianFrancesco speaks Italian I'm sure we'll understand your idea.

avionette

ok thank you for support and advice

ciao!

abufletcher

Five broken bits now. Running out. [:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@][:@] I was making progress on a new approach until I broke the last bit. This has not be an encouraging week of building.

Here's what I've been trying. I'm trying to make the flanges from lithoplate. It cuts easily with scissors and filing the final shape takes almost no effort. The hard part is getting 32 flanges all with perfectly aligned holes (three of them). First, I tried my usual of gluing the paper template with the many copies onto lithoplate and then center punching all the holes. But almost immediately it became apparent that there were going to be discrepancies, not to mention that doing 32 this way seemed slow. But sometime "slow" turns out to be "faster" than all the time wasted on "time saving" ideas.

The second idea was to stack up the lithoplate and drill 16 at a time. Broke 3 bits attempting that. Plus the holes didn't end up perfectly aligned. Third, I thought I'd drill the holes in a metal guide sheet and then tape the individual sheets of lithoplate to that. At least this way I'd have a uniform set. Broke another couple of bits attempting to drill the guide holes. [:@][:@][:@]

Maybe I'm just trying too hard. Time to call it a night.

Mein Duff

Sometimes don't you just love model building !?![sm=bananahead.gif] been there, done that......

BobH

My Feedback: (2)

Don.. make one and CAST the rest.. All holes aligned perfectly..It really is the goodest way sometimes for making small, numerous parts.

abufletcher

When nothing's working out, it's better just to do something else for a while. Tonight I cleaned and rearranged my "second shop" and "hanger." By the way, the neat thing about Japanese houses is that you can take out some of the walls when you want to!

GianFrancesco

Ciao Avionette
puoi contattarmi amche all'indirizzo privato.
Mi fa piacere se posso essere utile.

GianFrancesco

I agree with BobH

abufletcher

The flanges would be less than 0.5mm thick at this scale. About the same as a muffler gasket.

GianFrancesco

May be that you remember what I claimed "never more a 1/6 scale model"........for my skill and for my obsession for the details it is simply TOO difficult