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Is this for yourself or someone else? Beautiful.Of the approximately 40,000 men who served on U-boats in WWII, it is estimated that around 28,000 to 30,000 lost their lives.Comment
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Very nice.....another masterpiece. Will the sub-surface part get a matte clear coat as finish. Looks a bit too shiny....Comment
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Green lipstick on a shark!
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Now that you mention it. ...EEWWWWOOOO!
Well, lets finish the job: spiked blue hair, a ring in its nose, metal studs through it's eyelids, weather it with rainbows, and name it the KAREN class.
Yeah!... that'll work.
(now to dig the puke out from between the keyboard keys... thanks).
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After studying those pictures for way too long, I still have questions.
Are these little tools are just various sizes of brass tube with a "handle" soldered on? Do you use them as shown to scrape off the high parts in the groove, or do you wrap sandpaper around them to sand down the high parts?
In order to get the angle shown to insert the control surface, either the inner bearing hole is oversized, or the surface the hole is in is very thin. Neither seems like a good idea for good alignment and long term wear. So how do you get the angle to insert the control surface? Is the outer pin taking care of the bearing loads and the inner hole not important? Or am I just trying to over-engineer this?
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The final conformal shaping of the 'groove' within the trailing edge of the stabilizer is done by wrapping the leading edge of the control surface, installing it, and rotating it to force the sandwiched sandpaper to cut the grooved high-spots down to produce a non-interference fit between stabilizer and control surface, like so:
After studying those pictures for way too long, I still have questions.
Are these little tools are just various sizes of brass tube with a "handle" soldered on? Do you use them as shown to scrape off the high parts in the groove, or do you wrap sandpaper around them to sand down the high parts?
In order to get the angle shown to insert the control surface, either the inner bearing hole is oversized, or the surface the hole is in is very thin. Neither seems like a good idea for good alignment and long term wear. So how do you get the angle to insert the control surface? Is the outer pin taking care of the bearing loads and the inner hole not important? Or am I just trying to over-engineer this?
I'm able to insert the control surface operating shaft at that extreme angle (to clear the outboard bearing foundation at the end of the stabilizers trailing edge) because the bore of the hole to pass it is conical, not cylindrical of form. This insures a non-slop fit of the installed control surface, yet permits the off-angle passing of the operating shaft during insertion or removal. The yoke openings are over-sized to permit their integration with the inboard end of the operating shafts -- the slop taken out when the set-screw is driven home to make fast the control surfaces to the yoke.Last edited by He Who Shall Not Be Named; 09-13-2025, 02:02 PM.Who is John Galt?Comment
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I know you're busy right now but when can we see updates with the Italian CB20 and British X-Craft?Make it simple, make strong, make it work!Comment
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