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| rayl | Scratch Built Consolidated XF-92A | Build | 10-Jan-15 09:49 |  |
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| It's getting interesting now. The main L/G of this A/C has a main support axle with 4 struts attaching it to the oleo strutt. Each of the strutts is at a different angle and lenght. I made the jig shown to be able to make sure that the gears are identical. The gears are made of various sizes of brass tubing silver solderd together. |
| rayl | Scratch Built Consolidated XF-92A | Build | 09-Jan-15 13:12 |  |
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| Here is the nose gear well that has been fabricated within the inlet duct. It has been really hard to find good detail photos of some areas of the A/C, so there ia a little "Imagineering" going on here. I also laid on five planks on the bottom of the fuse to keep everything lined up. I did not want to apply any more planks that this as I need to keep the main L/G well area open for fabrication. |
| rayl | Scratch Built Consolidated XF-92A | Build | 09-Jan-15 13:06 |  |
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| Impatience strikes! I just had to start fairing the planking to see how it was going to turn out. My little Stanley planes, which are older than I am, worked just fine once they were set a little deeper that what I normally have them. The soft balsa requires a more aggressive approch than pine or hardwoods. |
| rayl | Scratch Built Consolidated XF-92A | Build | 09-Jan-15 13:02 |  |
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| Really not good picture as my "shop" digital camera does not have a Macro mode. If you look close, you can see the rivets and foil joint lines. Still have some work to do fairing the duct into the AIr Inlet nossepiece, ( which I haven't fabricated yet). |
| rayl | Guillows Series 400 - P-51 Mustang | Build | 09-Jan-15 12:59 |  |
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| A few more pictures now. This is the inlet duct looking aft. I will fair the seams in with Acryl-Blue glazing putty, which is another hard thing to find anymore. I plan on applying Aluminum foil to the interior of the duct complete with rivets (applied with the LOML pounce wheel). |
| rayl | Scratch Built Consolidated XF-92A | Build | 08-Jan-15 17:17 |  |
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| Starting to build the air inlet ducting. It is such a prominent feature that I felt that it had to be included. I spent several days re-learning the trig required to generate the patterns for the curved conical duct sections. Finally said the hell with it and cut and fir posterboard patterns until I wa satisfied with the shapes. There are three sections of inlet ducting per side. |
