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 speedster356
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| posted on August 28th, 2006 at 08:13 PM |
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Want to feel inadequate about your fabrication skills
Then look here......
http://allshops.org/cgi-bin/community/communityalbumdirectory.cgi
[ Edited on 28-8-2006 by speedster356 ]
Spyder-WISD 07-09-05 11.6s @ 125 MPH
Speedster-WISD Nats 05 14.4s @ 89 MPH
Jet cruiser-Coogee 22-09-05 900 deg C @ 110,000 rpm
Weaseling out of things is what separates us from the animals....................Except the Weasel.
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malcolm
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| posted on August 28th, 2006 at 08:54 PM |
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put that website in my fav,s.
I,m lucky got mate around the corner with 2 english wheels ,folders ,swaggers plus some niffty tools of his own who can fabricate anything .
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shaihulud
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| posted on August 28th, 2006 at 09:27 PM |
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That makes what I am doing to build a BD5 aeroplane as a museum exhibit look like the amateurish work that it is. I'm doing my best and it is really
crappy compared to that stuff.
I'm a volunteer at the RAAFA Aviation Heritage Museum in Buul Creek Perth. I was sort of roped into the job and I would much rather be working on the
Lancaster.
I know that I could never build a BD5 to fly. That is well beyond my capabilities.
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speedster356
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| posted on August 28th, 2006 at 10:02 PM |
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How's that H1 replica on the site, just outstanding work! Are you building the BD5 from scratch or completing one of the many part builds that are
around? I remember the BD5J at Oshkosh, what a hoot.
Spyder-WISD 07-09-05 11.6s @ 125 MPH
Speedster-WISD Nats 05 14.4s @ 89 MPH
Jet cruiser-Coogee 22-09-05 900 deg C @ 110,000 rpm
Weaseling out of things is what separates us from the animals....................Except the Weasel.
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shaihulud
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| posted on August 29th, 2006 at 09:11 AM |
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speedster. I'm finishing one that was put into storage in the loft of a building. The fuselage, tail and rear wings were done. The roof leaked and it
was about 1/4 full of water at times for years. It corroded badly and it was saved from a scrap metal yard for $20, by one of our volunteers.
I'm building it as a memorial to one of our youth group boys who died of leucaemia. His parants gave is a bequest to do something. It's going to be
done as a top gun plane. He wanted to be a pilot. It will have fixed aelerons, flaps and tail as it will be set up to be taken to shows for display
purposes.
At the moment it's called Il Millechiodi Speciale (the Thousand Rivet Special) after the prototype 308 Ferrari. Every time I work on it, it seems to
need a thousand rivets.
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speedster356
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| posted on August 29th, 2006 at 10:30 AM |
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You finishing it with full rivets or pop style rivets? Nothing better than crawling down the back of a fuselage holding the bucking bar while someone
pounds on the outside with the rivet gun......:thumb
Spyder-WISD 07-09-05 11.6s @ 125 MPH
Speedster-WISD Nats 05 14.4s @ 89 MPH
Jet cruiser-Coogee 22-09-05 900 deg C @ 110,000 rpm
Weaseling out of things is what separates us from the animals....................Except the Weasel.
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shaihulud
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| posted on August 29th, 2006 at 10:59 AM |
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The whole plane is assembles with pop rivets. The part that was made first was done with the correct aeroplane rivets. I'm using elcheapo hardware
store rivets. I've made a thing where I can turn an ordinary domed aluminium rivet into a countersunk rivet.
Every time I look at the Lancaster or the C47 I am amazed at how many blind rivets there are on them. In most of the places on the Lancaster where
there are pop rivets it's been somewhere where the French, who flew it out of Numea for years, or us have fixed it. We use blind rivets where we can,
but that needs internal access which is not always possible.
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