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Sorry about the no comment Tom and thanks for the kind words. Yes we're lucky to still be on the right side of the grass. Your cockpit looks great...nice detail. I've got everything to do my cockpit but haven't had the time. On top of everything else we just got a new puppy. Cute little mini aussie but she is turning our world upside down. Busy with the invisible dog fence and so on.
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I got a new insulin pump...$12,500. Every 3 months 1,500 out of pocket just for the stupid plastic pits to hook my self to the pump. Doesn't count insulin (300 a vial w/o insurance), test strips, etc. I'm only 31.Planes
-E-Flite: 1.2m P-47, Maule, Turbo Timber, 1.5m AT-6, 1.2m T-28, Dallas Doll, Viper, F-15, F-16, Wildcat, Carbon Cub -UMX: Mig-15, Pitts, Timber
-FMS: Bae Hawk Motion: 1.6m Corsair, 850mm Mustang, 1.6m Spitfire Freewing: 1.7m A-10, F-22,
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Originally posted by I-fly-rc-aircraft View PostFinally have my cockpit in the Corsair...modified the 3D Pup files (scaled them down).
Only printed the head rest from the seat back. Also scaled up the seat.
Printed an image I found online for the gauges. Cut each gauge out and glued in place behind the inst panel.
Tom
PS: next stage will be weathering.
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DWL: We have a new puppy also. We got her when she was just 12 wks old. She's now 16 wks.
Ok, back to the Corsair. I'm about ready to do some weathering and maybe add cowl flaps. Undecided if I should use thin balsa or thermo plastic for them. Both can be curved but balsa wouldn't take much at all to break.
Since I need to remove the wing to load the plane in my vehicle it has to go on my stand. Thinking thermo plastic would take more abuse than balsa.
Tom
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I would go with thermo plastic. I would be happy to be the guinea pig? LOLLOL;):)My YouTube RC videos:
https://www.youtube.com/@toddbreda
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I've done this before I made them out of ~.020 steel from McMaster carr. I bent the hinged edges over by clamping it in a vice, bending it over and burnishing a sharp corner with some scrap pine. you might have to rotate the jaws in the vice to make them stand above the vice so the second ear can be bent. then got a can about the size (now it would be plastic). filled it with expanding foam then put two slots in it to clear the ears and burnished it to the curvature I wanted. drilled the hinge holes then used one peace of .032 dia music wire through the ears of the flaps. connections to the fuse where between the flaps. used a nyrod to open ad shut them placed close to the hinge and also going through the hinge edges. the nyrod would expand as the engine got hot and the flaps would react.
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Originally posted by paladin View PostI've done this before I made them out of ~.020 steel from McMaster carr. I bent the hinged edges over by clamping it in a vice, bending it over and burnishing a sharp corner with some scrap pine. you might have to rotate the jaws in the vice to make them stand above the vice so the second ear can be bent. then got a can about the size (now it would be plastic). filled it with expanding foam then put two slots in it to clear the ears and burnished it to the curvature I wanted. drilled the hinge holes then used one peace of .032 dia music wire through the ears of the flaps. connections to the fuse where between the flaps. used a nyrod to open ad shut them placed close to the hinge and also going through the hinge edges. the nyrod would expand as the engine got hot and the flaps would react.
Joe
Don't think I'd go with operating cowl flaps, just partially open for the effect.
Tom
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My YouTube RC videos:
https://www.youtube.com/@toddbreda
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Originally posted by John_53_70 View PostCan any of y’all tell me if this plane will fit in a mid sized ford suv fully constructed, a Ford Edge to be Specific.
Although just looking at a photo of the back of the Edge it sure looks like it would fit, especially assuming those back seats fold down flat.
My YouTube RC videos:
https://www.youtube.com/@toddbreda
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Originally posted by I-fly-rc-aircraft View PostBefore I install thermo plastic cowl flaps I'll do some homework. Namely painting the plastic dark blue and leaving it out in the hot Georgia sun to see if it will deform.
Tom
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Originally posted by downwindleg View Post
Hey what about finding a plastic bottle, like a small bleach bottle or something with the same radius as the cowl and cutting the cowl flaps out of that assuring the curve of the flaps match? Just a thought.:Ligthbulb:
I'll see if I can find something when I go to the recycling center this week.
Thanks for the idea.
Tom
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