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| LASTWOODSMAN | Aero-Werkes DPCM 119 BE2e | Parked | 02-Apr-17 21:43 |  | | Views : 828 | | I tried to keep out wrinkles on the faces of the blades, keep the overlaps on the blade edge only, and have the cladding bottoms lline up even with the cladding bottoms on the other side. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Aero-Werkes DPCM 119 BE2e | Parked | 02-Apr-17 21:39 |  | | Views : 667 | | Finished prop all cladded up. The wrap arond edge strips were trimmed real close to the prop edge, leaving just enough to wrap the edge of the blade only - glued sparingly with 5 min Epoxy. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Aero-Werkes DPCM 119 BE2e | Parked | 02-Apr-17 21:35 |  | | Views : 631 | | Here it is all clamped and pinned up - black styrofoam on each side of the blade - the white paper templates are lined up with the wooden blade. The green masking tape on the opposite blade is so that I don't accidentally break it off ... |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Aero-Werkes DPCM 119 BE2e | Parked | 02-Apr-17 21:30 |  | | Views : 625 | | This is the "peel n stick" black styrofoam I used to hold the blade steady in order to press the claddings onto the blade tips. |
| John M Oshust | ManzanoLaser BAT FK-24 Baboon | Build | 01-Apr-17 15:04 |  | | Views : 838 | | Gunnery pit progress. Lewis gun mount nears completion. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Aero-Werkes DPCM 119 BE2e | Parked | 01-Apr-17 09:34 |  | | Views : 695 | | The cladding is glued to the prop and the white template paper is bent up so it does not glue. The two balsa strips used to pin down the prop, actually smeared and dented the one-week old Krylon clear finnish - I substituted some padding, for both sides of the prop, using some peel and stick balck styrofoam padding stuck to the pin down strips - that styrofoam padding is used for air conditioner draft seals. |
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| LASTWOODSMAN | Aero-Werkes DPCM 119 BE2e | Parked | 01-Apr-17 09:26 |  | | Views : 707 | | The white template is masking taped to the prop, and I brushed on a thin layer of 5 min epoxy to the wood - the cladding really wanted to slip and move around out of posiiton on a practise blade, which is why I used a template to make sure it was in the right positon as the glue dried. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Aero-Werkes DPCM 119 BE2e | Parked | 01-Apr-17 09:20 |  | | Views : 657 | | Brass coated coffee jar "freshness seals" (.001" thick) used for "S" shaped cladding cutouts that include extra cutout strips of "stretch out and wrap around edge strips". Template sheet for loating the cladding positions, one piece on each side of the prop. |
| Huey V77 | Scratch Built Gee Bee Model "Y" | Parked | 31-Mar-17 11:50 |  | | Views : 784 | | Here's the cowl, not happy with the rocker cover blisters, have some work on them. Also have to make an engine and prop. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Aero-Werkes DPCM 119 BE2e | Parked | 31-Mar-17 11:44 |  | | Views : 696 | | I removed the old "half circle" claddings from the prop tips, sanded the prop down to 400 grit paper, and sprayed 3 coats of Krylon Clear Gloss acrylic rattle can paint onto the balsa. |
| Huey V77 | Scratch Built Gee Bee Model "Y" | Parked | 31-Mar-17 11:40 |  | | Views : 803 | | Been messing with this the last couple of nights. Mixed Radome Tan and gloss White to get the base color. Amazingly the tissue tightened up. Some "Puckers" are still there. Don, on full scale using the "Dope" system, you apply two cross coats of nitrate to the fabric. nitra incapselates the fiber. Then you apply up to 4 coate of silver. Silver is butyrate mixed with aulminum power to block out UV light. Then you apply clear butyrate to fill the weave of the fabric. then several color coate. The last plane I did is a Aeronca Champ with 16 coats of dope. It looks beautifull, yet you can till see the weave. My Stinson model has two coats of nitrate and two coats of butyrate on silcspan. I heald its shape when paint was applied. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Aero-Werkes DPCM 119 BE2e | Parked | 31-Mar-17 11:35 |  | | Views : 697 | | I have decided to scrap the old calddings and try to imitate the "S" shaped claddings of the 4 blade DH4 Rolls Royce prop. |
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