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Date |
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| LASTWOODSMAN | Aero-Werkes DPCM 119 BE2e | Parked | 31-Mar-17 11:32 |  |
| Views : 718 |
| Originally, my 4 - blade BE2e prop had "half circle" cloth claddings made from brass 0.001" thick coffee jar freshness seals, and were just bent to shape and sliped over (not glued) to the prop tips. |
| John M Oshust | ManzanoLaser BAT FK-24 Baboon | Build | 30-Mar-17 15:19 |  |
| Views : 844 |
| Lewis Gun mount fabrication progress for today. |
| John M Oshust | ManzanoLaser BAT FK-24 Baboon | Build | 29-Mar-17 11:54 |  |
| Views : 790 |
| Progress on the gunnery pit. Now to fabricate a suitable gun mount and new Lewis gun. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Aero-Werkes DPCM 119 BE2e | Parked | 28-Mar-17 21:57 |  |
| Views : 817 |
| The machine gun assembly is mounted to the plane with the gunner in position. The gunner is also moveable, as he has a pin glued, that sticks out from his bottom, that sticks into a hole in the mounting plate in the gunner cockpit that the gunner figure sits on. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Aero-Werkes DPCM 119 BE2e | Parked | 28-Mar-17 21:49 |  |
| Views : 724 |
| I then installed the Lewis machine gun (there is a wire sticking out from the bottom of the machine gun balsa bracket mount), into one of several adjustable holes drilled into the base ring. The aluminum top ring can slide to different positions over the base ring, and the machine gun can be placed into the different holes in the base ring. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Aero-Werkes DPCM 119 BE2e | Parked | 28-Mar-17 21:43 |  |
| Views : 685 |
| I made the adjustable top ring from 3/32" dia. aluminum tubing ( the first try with 1/8" tubing was way too thick). I made little brown sleeves from a plastic brown lid from a styrofoam coffee cup, and I CA'd them to the adjustable top ring, so that it could slide around on the bottom base ring (painted golden brown). I then slid the top adjustable ring onto the base ring. |
