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| rayl | Scratch Built Consolidated XF-92A | Build | 23-Feb-15 12:24 |  | | Views : 521 | | The best way to bend brass tubing is to anneal it it first by heating until it is just starts to turn a dull red, let cool then slip the spring over the tubing and (within limits) bend away. Aluminum tubing is soft enough to bend without any annealling. The little butane torch at the top was purchased from Menards: $6.00 for the torch and $5.00 for a life-time supply of Butane in a aerosol can. |
| rayl | Scratch Built Consolidated XF-92A | Build | 23-Feb-15 12:19 |  | | Views : 502 | | DonC and all: This is a set of bending springs from K&S (the folks that make brass tubing) that I use to bend shapes. the set ia available at your LHS or Hobby Lobby. It can be used on tubing from 1/16" to 3/16" O.D. (I don't think that you can find it for $1.75 anymore however. |
| rayl | Scratch Built Consolidated XF-92A | Build | 19-Feb-15 13:11 |  | | Views : 513 | | David; In warmer times, we hang out a Lake Okoboji, about 15 miles north. It is one of two "Blue Water" lakes, the other being Lake Geneva in Switzerland. Deep and cold! |
| rayl | Scratch Built Consolidated XF-92A | Build | 19-Feb-15 11:33 |  | | Views : 470 | | Nose gear and well. BTW: yesterday was day of frustration and "Blue Haze" in the workshop. The Rapidogrph knock-off pens that I mentioned earlier not only don't work well on glossy surfaces, but don't dry either. After manhandling the plane to finish the panel lines, I found smudges, runs and fingerprints all over. I spent the better part of the afternoon with Q-tips and various cleaning fluids trying to repair the damage. I finally ended up using a Sharpie "Ultra fine poiint" laundry pen to finish the job. I had always planned on using some pastels to simulate the many rivet lines visable on the real plane, so maybe I can camoflauge some of the damage. Drat!!! |
| rayl | Scratch Built Consolidated XF-92A | Build | 19-Feb-15 11:25 |  | | Views : 531 | | Better view of the Main L/G. I need to find my cut-outs and patterns for the L/G doors and start on them. |
| rayl | Scratch Built Consolidated XF-92A | Build | 19-Feb-15 11:24 |  | | Views : 519 | | GEar: Down and Locked! |
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| rayl | Scratch Built Consolidated XF-92A | Build | 19-Feb-15 08:06 |  | | Views : 493 | | Night visitor: what a mooch. |
| rayl | Scratch Built Consolidated XF-92A | Build | 16-Feb-15 16:20 |  | | Views : 656 | | Here's the whole bunch, ready for painting and installation. BTW; I bought some Testors brush-on acrylic "aluminum", don't bother. I'll be airbrushing them with good old solvent based paint. The nose gear jig will alos serve as it's mounting base when installed in the gear well. And I still need tomount the retraction cylinder on the nose gear llinkage (I forgot to do that until I looked at the image just now). Oh Well. |
| rayl | Scratch Built Consolidated XF-92A | Build | 16-Feb-15 16:08 |  | | Views : 504 | | Must be the day for Landing Gear! Here is the final parts breakdown for the main L.G w/ TIre & Hub, disc brake setup and anti-shimmy sissors. |
| rayl | Scratch Built Consolidated XF-92A | Build | 13-Feb-15 12:51 |  | | Views : 579 | | Started to lay out the panel lines. I bought a cheezy set of Rapiograph-type draughtsman felt tip pens at the local Hobby Lobby. They don't work to well on a glossy surface so I treid wiping the paint job down with denatured alchohol to erase the mistakes, which worked (sort of). The alchohol did act like a weak de-glosser and the next attempt worked better. I think that being it's Friday the 13th today, I shall find something else to do before I muck this thing up really bad. |
| rayl | Scratch Built Consolidated XF-92A | Build | 13-Feb-15 12:43 |  | | Views : 500 | | Done with this end. |
| rayl | Scratch Built Consolidated XF-92A | Parked | 13-Feb-15 12:42 |  | | Views : 486 | | A/B duct installed. Two rings of soft solder CA'd to the former to provide gluing surface for the A/B nozzles and the plastic (ex-coke bottle) tail-piece fairing. |
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