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| LASTWOODSMAN, Comment for image # 39009 | 08 Jul 17 22:25 |
| Pilot is OK - the rubber was a big wound knot in the back of the fuse - only the fuse tissue was ripped badly - I could not even find the "S" hook from the rubber to the prop hook. All repaired now - I just took it out for some full moon flights, 45 min after the full moon rose at 8:43 PM - got several 30 second perfect circling flights on 4 strands of 1/8" rubber, each strand 12" long,(prop hook to rear motor peg is 13"), on 645 winds - tried to take pics, but they did not work ... just one sort of did. |
| mlriley540, Comment for image # 39009 | 08 Jul 17 19:46 |
| Pilot OK? |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 39009 | 08 Jul 17 18:58 |
I just tried using bigger rubber and I reduced the number of rubber strands, on my 22" Cabinaire, with great results. Instead of 4 strands of 1/8" rubber, each strand 13" long (the prop hook to rear motor peg length on the plan was 13"), which gave consistent 25 second flights, I then instead went to 2 strands of 3/16" rubber, each strand 15" long. I could really stretch the rubber very far out from the nose, using a winding stooge, and wound in 55 winds on my 15:1 winder which equals 825 turns on the rubber motor, and got my record, much slower, beautiful turning flight of 48 seconds!! Tthen I got greedy and wound 70 turns on the winder for 1050 turns, and when I put the nose plug on - the Rubber Motor BLEW UP !!! Tissue damage all over the rear end, and a big chunk (sitting on my glasses case), of the foreward fuse former, busted out, along with the bottom fuse forward nose stringers busted !! |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 38986 | 04 Jul 17 13:38 |
20 " Customaire bipe - The parts are now completely blocked up and fitted to each other. The two die crushed ribs were bigger than the laser cut ribs, and had to be sanded to the shape of the laser cut ribs - by sandwiching the two die crushed ribs between the two laser cut ribs, and sanding them equal to the laser cut ribs. Two W6 ribs are left over, and will be added after all else is glued up and dry. The twin W6 ribs in each wing have a 1/32" space between them for the wing strut attachment. I will fit a 1/32" spacer of balsa between them and then glue the rib twins. |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 38985 | 04 Jul 17 13:34 |
20" Customaire biplane build - the parts for the two lower "sesqui" wings are ready to be test fitted and held in place flush and snug (but not too tight) for slip fit, with 'parts-locating', balsa bracing planks, that are pinned to the building board. They will then be removed for "double gluing". |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 38984 | 04 Jul 17 13:19 |
20" Sig "Customaire" bipe - The completed Stab and Fin/Rudder have been finished and sanded to 320 grit. They together weigh less than one gram. |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Comment for image # 38982 | 04 Jul 17 08:31 |
| Thanks for the responses - I don't understand all the computer lingo, but that sounds very reassuring. Meanwhile, the uproar is escalating by a lot of VERY ANGRY people. |
| jgood, Comment for image # 38982 | 03 Jul 17 23:54 |
| Hey guys. Yes, VA doesn't rely on any external sites or services. Aside from Google for the ad at the bottom of the page... |
| SteveM, Comment for image # 38982 | 03 Jul 17 21:19 |
| I'm not James, but I can tell you that this site hosts its own images and does not use external links or embedded images. |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 38983 | 03 Jul 17 19:00 |
22" Sig Customaire bipe - Stabilizer is now all glued up in with the parts in position, waiting to dry overnight. |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Comment for image # 38982 | 02 Jul 17 23:15 |
| James, how will this affect VA, and what can be done about it? |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 38982 | 02 Jul 17 23:14 |
NO WARNING !! If you use Photobucket, and suddenly lost your pictures/images, this is what they did to you ... "As of June 30, 2017, Photobucket requires a $99 annual subscription to allow external linking to hosted images and a $399 annual subscription to allow the embedding of images on third-party websites, such as personal blogs and forums. This policy change, enacted with no advance warning, has been highly controversial.[6] |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 38981 | 02 Jul 17 08:41 |
20" Sig Customaire - stab parts are removed and spread out white glued on all mating surfaces and left to dry. |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 38980 | 02 Jul 17 08:38 |
The actual Stabilizer parts are then removed from the locating blocking up frames. Call me crazy, but there is a soothing, pretty, colored symmetry to all of the round head pins sticking up. Then each individual stab part is now glue-brushed separately on all of their mating surfaces with a white glue:water mixture ratio of about 65 glue and 35 water ratio (65:35), and then left to dry before the second part of double gluing with immediate final assembly I may seem like a lot of extra work, but I like to have fun fiddling around during the build - I build slow - so hopefully when I glue it all together - and the parts do fit right in their place nicely - I will have deep strong bonds. |
| Don C, Comment for image # 38971 | 30 Jun 17 22:32 |
| I stand corrected, but ready to screw up again. :)
Interesting work here. |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 38973 | 30 Jun 17 15:20 |
Sig 20" "Customaire" biplane - Rudder/fin framing is doubled white glued and the stab is all blocked up with small bracing planks pinned in place, ready to glue. |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Image # 38972 | 30 Jun 17 15:13 |
Oh well, so much for chivalry ... |
| LASTWOODSMAN, Comment for image # 38971 | 30 Jun 17 15:12 |
| She was really angry, and you know how much more attractive Librarians become when they get angry - just like my College Chemistry Professor, Ms. Deb Boersma. I said "You don't understand, because obviously, you are not a modeler!" That only made things worse! Anyways, she was really starting to hurt my feelings, so I decided to try to soften her up a bit. I interrupted her "tirade", with "How about seafood dinner at the Red Lobster, then an early movie followed by Ballroom Dancing late into the night, and topping it all off with wild passionate affection?" I was hoping to get her britches in an uproar, but all it did was make her "madder than a 'wet hen' ." Oh well, so much for chivlary ... |
| David Duckett, Comment for image # 38971 | 30 Jun 17 11:06 |
| Marian |
| Don C, Comment for image # 38971 | 30 Jun 17 10:52 |
| Was it Marion? |
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