rt3232

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I T/T pete and he did not have an issue with it

Bob T

Canuck1

Did not think he would have a problem. This is all about supporting the hobby, learning from each other, discovering new ways to do some things, and most important.......................having fun. Its only an airplane thread, not life and death.

Craig

SMUGator

Cool.

sweetpea01

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Well I don't know Peter but have used alot of his ideas from this thread.

I for one plan to continue it with my updates from my P-47. If for nothing else......so that the P-47 builds can be in one spot.

rt3232

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Hay Sweetoea01

Don't miss Ramfarland's, and Toms aka SMUgater's threads hear in RCU as both have great ideas on things, and then check Connery's thread over on RSCB, I will never get to there class but I am having a ball trying to follow there ideas.

Cheers Bob t

sweetpea01

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Thanks......been reading most of the threads. I too won't get to their class. I wish I had time to build this one, but with me moving in the summer I figured it was better to utilize my builder one last time before I leave.

rt3232

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Ok
Been working on the cooler doors, made them per the templets, but they don't fit worth a _____[&o] Anyway with out buying the pre made from aerotech, What is your best avice?? All ready have the holes cut and realy want to put them in as they look great in the real bird. Been looking back in a coupla of threads but not much help.

Cheers Bob t

timothy thompson

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are they giving him a second chance? everyone deserves one

rt3232

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Ok Guys
I still need some help on these cooling doors, or just some sugestions,

Cheers Bob t

BobH

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It's pretty easy to make the cooling doors out of Styrene Plastic sheet. Make them a little longer than needed so you can glue them to the inside of the fuse..

sweetpea01

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More photos of mine.....its coming along at a nice pace.

rt3232

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Sweetpea01

Looken good from this side of the pic's

If you are planning a pilot (full body) besure to plan ahead I had to drop the flooor a full 1/2 to get his knees bent right


Cheers Bob T

rt3232

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Ok turkey is gone game is over, so hear is how the cooling door install came out, pic;s 1 and 2 just info 3 and 4 are the install, sorry I am not a better fotographer [>:]

Cheers Bob T

sweetpea01

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rt3232..........yours looks nice also.

I'm planning the full body pilot. He is supposed to cut the floor out later this week........you have any photos of how yours was done?

Canuck1

Nice job on the cooling doors. I took the easy way out, made them in the closed, flushed position. I was thinking that painting my markings would have been a nightmare with those doors in the open position.

Craig

rt3232

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Thanks for the comp's, guys

Had not realy thought about the paint problem, so will just have to see when I get there, not sure how hot the air coming out is, so will have to paint inside olive drab or black and fudge the finish paint???


Any One looking for a full body pilot found a web site for one looks like he would fit our size birds well, anyway try www.HistoricAviation.com


Cheers Bob T

themadmax

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Don't you guys have plastic down under? I applaud your efforts to make your control surface hinging/construction look more scale-like but ply wouldn't be my first choice. I've used .020 Mylar or similar plastic for this purpose. It's requires no filling or sanding, very little putty to hide the edge and is as scale in appearance as one could ask for.

I've attached a scale flap hinge drawing in case you missed it on the other thread.

Good luck!

rt3232

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Themadmax

What do youmean down under I hear in the upper midwest minnesota.

Anyway this is my secound scale project and just doing the simple modes, that my talent can handle at this point and will add more to next project

Cheers Bob T

Peter_OZ

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hey guys,
wonder if you mind if I post a few bits and pics?

Most apprecaite of you lot keeping thread ticking over while I have been mending my recalitrant ways.

cheers
Peter

Peter_OZ

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so quite a lot of progress on the 47 since I last posted. Most of the work has been centered around gear doors and getting the canopy sorted out.

Will post a few words and pics as I go.

cheers and it really is good to be back amongs t me mates.
Peter

Peter_OZ

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Well just trying to figure out where I left off, forgive me if I'm out of sequence a bit!

Here we go, back into it! I'm going to finish this build yet and here where it all began too!

Some pics of progress, will let the pics tell the story.
a shot of the retract leg, this was of the old Robart unit which has been replaced by oil damped oleos by Custom Retracts here in Australia.

Pics of the wingtip nav lights and the clear covers. Tiketec came over and showed / helped me to do these a couple of months back.

Some pics with the nav lights on and the landing light too. Note the 3 ident lights as well. These will have a coloured lens / bezel over the top of them.

cheers
Peter

Peter_OZ

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next lot in the sequence of progress.

Progress on the cockpit sides and canopy work.

Peter_OZ

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couple more of canopy work, slow labourious job this task.

Some of retracts and gear doors.

You can see the outer portion of the gear bay getting a layer of 6oz cloth to reinforce it.

Also shown is the marking out for the gear doors. Man gear doors are fiddly but satisfiying. I have never done them before so faily pleased with results but could have done it better.

One pic of the gear door shows a paino style hinge. Whaile this looks very neat it did not allow the door to "twist" as the leg deployed. The rake angles on the bird make the leg raote a bit as it extends, so had to use a plastic offset hinge which is working quite nicely.

Onto the next sequence of pics...

Peter_OZ

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Various shots of the gear door trailing links that pull the door closed with the leg. These literally took hours of fiddling to get right.

Sequence of shots showing the gear door being pulled closed by the oleo leg during retraction.

Peter_OZ

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next lot ...


pic of the new spinner for the 96" span HD Mk VIII Spitfire pateiently waiting

You can see in one of the pics the drawing I did to work out the geometry for the inner gear doors and the air rams to drive them. This is a technique I found in a UK magazine by renowned UK builder / modeller Phil clarke.

Fabricating then gear doors, these are made from about 4 layers of 6oz cloth that were laid up some time back over the bottom section of the wing before the wells were cut out. They will be reinforced with balsa and 2.4oz glass cloth.

Later pics will show the reinforcement.