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| John M Oshust, Image # 33393 | 05 Mar 15 13:13 |
I have just returned from the snow cave where I placed Gumby. Gumby is missing. Pictured here is the prime suspect in the Gumbynapping. He is a Rhodesian Ridgeback who uses the name "Bubz". I think a yellow alert is appropriate;-) Bubz strongly dislikes the Gumster |
| John M Oshust, Image # 33391 | 05 Mar 15 12:42 |
In the off season Gumby builds houses. This condominium awaits spring ownership! |
| John M Oshust, Image # 33390 | 05 Mar 15 12:41 |
poppy....so stimulating and refreshing. Gets the blood flowing! |
| John M Oshust, Comment for image # 33384 | 04 Mar 15 17:46 |
| Tiss why I chose it and deemed it "Ogre"! I have been sucessful with quite a few biplane builds. Ogre's wings have been a large pain in my asp! |
| JohnG., Comment for image # 33384 | 04 Mar 15 17:25 |
| Alas, one more time you seem to have all under control. It is an ugly looking beast, however... :-) |
| John M Oshust, Comment for image # 33382 | 04 Mar 15 16:37 |
| rayl...More flotsam and jetsam than detritus. Gumby's loves detritus and usually consumes all that appears in the shop😳😳 the build is a long, long way from completion and it is not over until the fat lady sings! |
| rayl, Comment for image # 33382 | 04 Mar 15 16:25 |
| Please be careful not to damage the airfoils with the detritus reposting on the bench. Now that I have vicariously built a biplane with you, I couldn't stand to see any misfortune befall it. |
| John M Oshust, Image # 33384 | 04 Mar 15 14:31 |
There is a critical part of a biplane construction endeavor. That being the fitting of the wings to each other and to the fuselage. The past few days I have addressing this stage of Ogre construction in an hermit like manner. |
| John M Oshust, Image # 33383 | 04 Mar 15 14:31 |
Locked in my small basement “man cave” located next to the furnace, I have been installing internal pulleys for the aileron cables, covering the wings with poly-span, and finishing aileron construction. |
| John M Oshust, Image # 33382 | 04 Mar 15 14:29 |
I buried Gumby in a snow drift while I pondered and implemented this critical part of the build. No room for the myth and hijinks associated with his presence, as an error in thought at this critical juncture, could spell disaster for Ogre’s completion and final form. |
| John M Oshust, Image # 33381 | 04 Mar 15 14:28 |
The moment of truth eventually arrived....that being the dry fitting of the air foils! I was happy to see that all seems well. |
| John M Oshust, Image # 33380 | 04 Mar 15 14:27 |
When components fall into place and align with each other in a dry elastically bound fit, you can be fairly certain that all will go well when the wings are placed in bonds of the epoxy molecules in the near future. |
| John M Oshust, Image # 33327 | 28 Feb 15 17:09 |
Pulleys take one...faux pulleys. |
| John M Oshust, Image # 33326 | 28 Feb 15 17:08 |
This past Friday around 11 AM I retuned from my annual physical. I was the recipient of the “you will live out the day” guarantee. Rather than faux pulleys, the design team has decided to remanufacture and make functional pulleys. After I retuning from the doctor, we knocked out 8 pulleys. After my thrilling physical exam, it felt a bit different sitting on the model shop stool, but the feeling will pass with time. I remembered that in the scrap box there were many wood discs from previous builds. Gumby made the pulleys and I installed Al tube bearings, wooden sheaves, some roof flashing for a bracket, and a functioning aileron cable control pulley set emerged. While not strong enough for a flight model, they will serve my purpose in showing how things worked in WW1 aero planes. |
| John M Oshust, Image # 33325 | 28 Feb 15 17:07 |
Thinking about our growing pulley collection I remembered that we had not tapped a great model component resource, that being the son’s Lego part collection. Having just had his 27th B’day, I do not think Toley will miss a few Lego parts. Stripping the tyres off of some small auto rims, ready made pulleys emerged. |
| John M Oshust, Image # 33324 | 28 Feb 15 17:06 |
With Gumby”s help a third type of pulley emerged. Functional in their design and construction, the sheaves on the Lego pulleys rotate. |
| John M Oshust, Image # 33323 | 28 Feb 15 17:05 |
Now that they are all painted. We have a supply to meet all our cable direction needs for this builds and for those in the future. |
| Don C, Comment for image # 33314 | 28 Feb 15 00:34 |
| Taught a lot of us to think before acting. Unfortunately, being only human, I sometimes forget. Thanks for the good example Spock. |
| R.giyan, Comment for image # 33314 | 27 Feb 15 20:58 |
| Live long and prosper.See you on the other side Spock. |
| John M Oshust, Comment for image # 33314 | 27 Feb 15 17:25 |
| His logic saved Kirk's fanny on many an episode. He also taught me to appreciate Vulcan women! |
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