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| rayl | Scratch Built Loening OL-8 Amphibian | Build | 22-Jan-16 19:25 |  |
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| Top wing done. The plans that I am working off of did not have ailerons, so had to extrapolate/interpolate/WAG them; think that I'm pretty close. The wing center section/dihederal brace took most of the day (when I wasn't shoveling snow). |
| rayl | Scratch Built Loening OL-8 Amphibian | Build | 20-Jan-16 11:55 |  |
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| Nearly 200 individual parts here, Took a day and a half to git R done. The little pile in front are the puchings from the alignment tool. I think the next model will be Laser-cut. |
| rayl | Scratch Built Loening OL-8 Amphibian | Build | 18-Jan-16 23:15 |  |
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| There are about 15 rib blanks clamped in the patterns. The red edge, applied with a sharpy, is a warning stripe to let me know if I have gone to far. I roughed the shape out with my drum sander then used a fairing board to refine the ribs. The notches were roughed out with a razor saw then refined with a small bastard file. |
| rayl | Scratch Built Loening OL-8 Amphibian | Build | 18-Jan-16 23:04 |  |
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| About 1/3 of teh rib blanks in waiting. |
| rayl | Scratch Built Loening OL-8 Amphibian | Build | 18-Jan-16 23:03 |  |
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| With about 80 full size ribs to cut out of 1/16" sheet, Imade a jig out of 1/8" lite-ply to insure consistent results. There are two 6-32 stove-bolts to clamp the rib blanks between the patterns. The thingy to the left is a piece of 1/8" O.D. brass tube with the inside sharpened with a countersink which should make some nice holes in the rib blanks using the pattern jig in front. |
| rayl | Scratch Built Loening OL-8 Amphibian | Build | 17-Jan-16 14:13 |  |
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| Assenblage of parts waiting to be doped and tissue applied. IT was (-)22 deg. F. overnight and is going to get up to (-) 8 deg. today: the dopeing can wait. Besides I have to get ready to watch the Steelers wump the Broncos. |
