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ORIGINAL: R/C Art Ohio State is about to tip off and IU is coming up at 2:45 - so I won't get much done today either [8D] Sports, the other opiate of the masses. ;) |
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Both teams won - back to the shop.
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elevators are now sheeted and rough cut as is the stab......
and the snow is just beginning, 3 inches and counting.......supposed to have 6 to 10 inches (and I drive a rural mail route[&:]) |
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Ah, springtime in Indiana! Vs. springtime in Japan. :D Still, neither rain, nor shine...
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Some photos of the new right wing panel framed up.
With this design I did not use any balsa cap strips. Instead I cut thin strips of the airfoil shape from the ply and glued them to the sides of the ribs to give me 1/4" of material for the covering to adhere to. These strips are 1/8" wide and about 3/16" tall. I found this to be much easier than bending 1/8"x1/4" balsa to follow the curve, and it is one less material needed in the kit. Larry |
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Larry,
That is 2 great changes on the wings...........leading edge dowel and no rib caps! We are ready to go for this weekend. I will use a digital camera (on the ground) to make sure I can post some of the flight videos. The new wing looks really good! Art ....hope you are feeling better.........DRINK a Mountain Dew 24 ounce! And get back to it! You are almost there ......(right Geez!?...chime in anytime with false illusions of grandeurs! LOL!) HPA |
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Huh!
Doc |
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Do I have to draw you a picture?
Tell Art something that will get him across the finish line!..........anything!........hurry up before he gets home from work..... |
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Paul, just what makes you think he's gonna listen to me, I'm way too far away to threaten him bodily. I could offer him a bribe but you're gonna have to chip in now!
Cmon ART Go Man Go!! |How am I doin??? Is he doing anything yet? Doc |
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ORIGINAL: geezeraviation Paul, just what makes you think he's gonna listen to me, I'm way too far away to threaten him bodily. I could offer him a bribe but you're gonna have to chip in now! Cmon ART Go Man Go!! |How am I doin??? Is he doing anything yet?Doc Nothing...........................................[&o][&o] Speaking of "nothing"..........Nothing says "I Love you" like BACON!:):) HPA |
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You are the coooolest dude I know!;):) I got 3 new recipes off that site! HPA Art hows come you are the only one working today?..............There is a lot of off topic chit-chat waiting on YOU!!!! |
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I especially was interested in the bacon toothpaste. When you brush your teeth after breakfast you don't lose that good flavor!:D
BTW, Are all these Eindeckers going to be at the Ohio Dawn Patrol? There should be an Eindecker gaggle![8D] Jim |
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ORIGINAL: Horsepoweraviation Do I have to draw you a picture? Tell Art something that will get him across the finish line!..........anything!........hurry up before he gets home from work..... Just count me as walking dead - and everyone knows how fast a dead turtle can walk [X(] Doc - send money (I need glue) :D by the time your donation arrives I will be recovered enough to start gluing again. And now I have come to realize [:-] that not enough bacon in my diet has been the slow down - thanks Jim for letting me know that:eek: I feel motivated enough to go out to the shop and sand something[>:] or cut something[X(] oh my, I'm tired just thinking about it:eek:[&o] |
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Art...I for one appreciate you progressing at a speed that we ARF bashers can keep up with!!!
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ORIGINAL: tevans55 Art...I for one appreciate you progressing at a speed that we ARF bashers can keep up with!!! |
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"and lions and tigers and bears, Oh my!"
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Pssssst ...............Psssssssssst................. ART!............
(what the hell is Geez talking about?) HPA |
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Like, scary things man, like, Art as an ARF builder, scary. Don't ya think?
Doc |
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I thought you were talking about how lions, tigers, and bears pick off the weak ones who have fallen behind. :D
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ORIGINAL: CubCrafter With this design I did not use any balsa cap strips. Instead I cut thin strips of the airfoil shape from the ply and glued them to the sides of the ribs to give me 1/4'' of material for the covering to adhere to. These strips are 1/8'' wide and about 3/16'' tall. I found this to be much easier than bending 1/8''x1/4'' balsa to follow the curve, and it is one less material needed in the kit. Larry I do agree about the dowel leading edge though, (poplar from Hope Depot- nice and light). I'm building my second biplane with it, and I'm a believer. Martin |
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That would be my 2 cents as well.
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ORIGINAL: Nieuport nut Have you considered 2 layers of 1/16''? It just seems to me that cutting an piece of ply for each rib and then making sure they all line up is more work than double capping. Personally, I like being able to gang sand all the caps on a finished wing to ensure an even wing, and balsa's easy to sand. Just a different way I guess. I do agree about the dowel leading edge though, (poplar from Hope Depot- nice and light). I'm building my second biplane with it, and I'm a believer. Martin Caps strips present a problem when you go to mate them to the dowel leading edge. You have to make a sharp, curved bevel on each one and it's difficult and time consuming to to get them neat ( I couldn't do it.) I used a dowel LE and 1/16" balsa cap strips on my DH-2 and had to go back and use filler in the gap at every cap strip at the leading edge.[:'(] From now on I'm using hard balsa, square-section stock in a V-cut for leading edges on a WW1 plane with thin wings. Rounding off the corner on the front of the LE is no big problem.[8D] Jim |
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ORIGINAL: geezeraviation Like, scary things man, like, Art as an ARF builder, scary. Don't ya think? Doc :D Greg |
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ORIGINAL: Eindecker_pilot ORIGINAL: geezeraviation Like, scary things man, like, Art as an ARF builder, scary. Don't ya think? Doc :D Greg Doc |
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