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rayl | Scratch Built Loening OL-8 Amphibian | Build | 20-Nov-16 11:43 | | Views : 407 | Conviently, the crankcase was the same radius as one of my sanding drums. |
rayl | Scratch Built Loening OL-8 Amphibian | Build | 20-Nov-16 11:41 | | Views : 383 | @nd attepmt at the crankcase. After laying all the sectors out, I made the cylinder bases by slicing them off on my lathe after using the drum sander to match the radius of tht crankcase. |
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rayl | Scratch Built Loening OL-8 Amphibian | Build | 20-Nov-16 11:37 | | Views : 433 | First attempt at making the crankcase: Not happy. I'm not good at carving. |
rayl | Scratch Built Loening OL-8 Amphibian | Build | 19-Nov-16 10:53 | | Views : 500 | All nine cylinders done. I think that this going to get complicated before it's over. I had purchased a Williams Bros. 1/12 scale radial, but it just looked to big hanging out there, even though the OL-8 is aprox 1/14 scale. |
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