BlockerAviation
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I don't remember, let me see if I can find a picture
Sig 1/4 Clipped Winged Cub and time to change my Avatar
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cyclone3350
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BlockerAviation
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Waiting for building season to start back up again
cyclone3350
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I do check in on your build. Looking forward when U get back to it.
BlockerAviation
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It'll be ready for next year though, I have about a weeks worth more progress done than in this picture
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OliverW
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She's not my cub anymore. Sold it to fund a new plane
cyclone3350
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Is your avatar a clue to what U funded?
OliverW
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No sir. I bought an extreme flight 85" mxs. I just need to pick it up on Wednesday at huckfest!
cyclone3350
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We have a few club members and Extreme Flight is all they buy. No doubt, their quality is top notch. They make 3d look so easy. I've tried, but I suck @ it. I am going to introduce my little girl to Real Flight when she gets back from G-ma & G-pa. Who knows, maybe she can teach me.
cyclone3350
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I have made it to work on this thing for a little over two hours today. I have the door opening done and need to make a top window frame and put in a rear support for the battery tray. Now that I have this opening, I am finding this compulsive desire to put in an interior. I have a kit from Dynamic balsa. I just don't want to spend more than the next two weeks finishing this one.
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cyclone3350
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cyclone3350
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Got to do some more work on it today. @Taildragger was looking for ideas on how to make a windscreen. It is something I had to get to, so I worked on it today. I misplaced my plans, so I am having to make my own pattern. I have a Paolo Severin 1/4 scale Cub plans and was hoping the pattern on this would be close. I started by tracing the pattern on to drafting paper and then using 77 spray adhesive, applied it to poster board. From there I cut it out and went to see if it would fit. No, not even close, well maybe a little in the front, but that is about it. Turned out to be way to narrow. I went a head and traced it out on another piece of paper rotating it to make a wider pattern. Placed one edge align the the window frame, and traced and trimmed to go around the top . Went to the half way point and sketched a line from the half way mark on top to the one on the bottom. I noticed that it dipped inward around the center on the bottom, and made a mark from where I needed to extend this to make a smooth round line. U can see what I mean by looking @ the second pattern on the paper before I cut it out. Once it is cut out, I put tape on the edges and centering around the center line marks on the top and bottom, stretch around the window frame and taped. Just a little overage on the sides and on the top. This is exactly what I wanted, as I can trim this off after placing the final clear plastic in place.
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Ratcheeroo
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yep think I need to go back to the roots and do a balsa build, awesome job so far my friend! Not understanding why I have not been receiving notifications or that they seem to be so out of date when I do get one
cyclone3350
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Thanks, I luv balsa builds. The only draw back is that they R time consuming. It has been hit and miss with me on the alerts also. I think it has to do with that I have been posting and likes on a fair amount of threads recently.
speedbirdted
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The paper template technique for making windshields has saved me much suffering in time. Some people use a material called See-Temp to make windshield templates, but paper works just as well and is much cheaper.
I used the same technique on my cub to make the windshield, though I only made a half template and started off by completely WAGing it instead of going off someone else's template. It worked out perfectly. It's worth noting the Cub has a slightly weird windshield shape, where it blends into the wing and gets narrower as it goes up. This explains it well enough:
I used the same technique on my cub to make the windshield, though I only made a half template and started off by completely WAGing it instead of going off someone else's template. It worked out perfectly. It's worth noting the Cub has a slightly weird windshield shape, where it blends into the wing and gets narrower as it goes up. This explains it well enough:
Ratcheeroo
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Ratcheeroo
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that is exactly the way I pretty much do everything like that, you have a much better way of explaining it to people, I put my pattern up as a starting point for taildragger to have a reference to a shape that would possibly work for him
cyclone3350
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Getting some more of the boring stuff out of way. Originally I had intended to run one servo for the elevator and one for the rudder. Then I was going to mount two servos externally, one for each elevator, and pull pull the rudder. I knew I wasn't going to like the way that would look, and decided to mount everything internally. A servo tray was fabricated and re enforced with 1/4 X 1/8 bass strips. I hate cutting the holes for the servos as I was using 1/16 birch ply. I also had to cut out some of the space frame bracing to accommodate the control rod tubes as this had to be straight from the servo to the control horn. To make up for the missing structure, I added 1/8 balsa to tie in what was cut away and make for the control rod tube exit. Tomorrow I will set up the pull pull and hopefully have the motor mounted.
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Ratcheeroo
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Looking good! Nice solution to your problem