1200SportsterRider

I am looking for pilot busts for the Spad, is the WWI guy close, Thanks, Dave

1/10 scale pilot bust

Jesse Open

Pete,

Getting a box together for my next trip to the Post Office. Keep an eye out



Dave, WW2, but should be close enough for "Stand Off Scale".

Want it?

modeltronics

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Hey Gary, Thanks so much!

Jesse Open

No problem.

At the field. Grass is very tall, Humidity about 88%. Winds rolling out to Lake St. Clair about3 miles to the East. Running variable 15 knots, gusting 25. Very little military traffic from Selfridge ANG.

Perfect! The casual fliers all stayed home, got the whole field to myself.

We just finished a sadly delayed maiden.
A long time flying pal passed away a few months ago. I was gifted his unfinished Sig Kadet Sr Sport model, the red version. So sorry that Al never had the chance to fly it. I removed the Tower .52 two stroke and bolted up a new FA-82. Programmed the ailerons to work as spoilerons, set theCG a bit forward for now.These ARF do come in a bit heavy. This one pushes down 8 pounds and four ounces. My kit built Seniors come in below 5.5 pounds.
Made a beautiful pair of roostertails at take off.
Moved into the air straight and clean. Trim fine and the engine ran very steadily.



Come on up, we can get on the Lake later and catch our limit of Walleye!

1200SportsterRider

It looks to be about 71mm tall, that would be perfect, name a a price, Thanks

FlyerInOKC

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The wind would keep the ARF fliers away all right. When I got back into RC back in 04 I soloed in a 15 knot crosswind. In Oklahoma if you can't fly in wind you don't fly.

Jesse Open

Don't be silly, just re-send me your address

Jesse Open

Here, next to the lakes, winds usually blow on to them in daytime and off them at night
Wife and I were out here a few weeks ago. Flying our Hangar 9 Toledo Special, yep, an ARF. Airport two miles West of this field reported 30 mph gusting to 45. We had a ball,

modeltronics

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Beautiful looking field there Gary.

At 10 AM this morning it was 90 degrees here with 50% humidity.

I tried going out flying at 7:30 in the morning last week. It was nice but the sun is in the wrong place for what I like for flying. If I do that again I'm going to try flying from the other end of my grass strip. The nice thing about being out in the boonies is that I don't bother anyone except the cows, and they don't seem to mind.

the Wasp

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Guys, what is this tool? please tell.
while this highly advanced, precision tool could be updated to evenly a highly more acerate tool. it's precision makes it a highly needed tool in the world of RC planes. yet many, even most do not use it.
to add, the stick is just used to align it. my finger is used to show it's size.
tell me what it is.

Jesse Open

Looks like something that would fall out of a Tinkertoy box 70 years ago.

Glowgeek

Perhaps a marking gauge for prop cutouts on spinners?

Glowgeek

Us poor kids got tinker toys and lincoln logs......the rich kids got erector sets.

Jesse Open

Sure
.....Spinners on Tinkertoy airplanes!

We were so poor, my Tinkertoy set was one I found in a neighbor's curbside trash.
My Grandfather made me a set of Lincoln logs.

the Wasp

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Lonnie, I have to say, if anyone would know or come close it would be you.
my tool worked very well aligning the Cowl.

a 60 size Shoestring with a Cowl from the 40 size Shoestring, the engine (never started) is the older OS 70sz Heli engine. a bolt in fit to the OS 61fx. note the large carb. the Carb is a 60L off the OS Hyper 50 Heli engine. it's the same size as the 2 needle 70's 60k. but it has only 1 needle. these Carbs do not use a "Needle" for the "Idle". they are very good Carbs, with a prop they idle fantastic. the upper left cutout is for the Needle, I cut it a bit wrong, therefor it got bigger. I finely getting close to done.



it looks a bit small, LOL but that means less air drag.

Jesse Open

Kinda thought it was something like that. Until I remembered Tinkertoys.



I usually turn a little fixture ring for the cowl mount location. Gives all the positions at once. Sets cowl opening perfectly centered and sets the spinner to cowl nose clearance and parallel. All in one operation. Easy to repeat when remounting the cowl. That's the way I do it anyhoo

FlyerInOKC

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You have all the cool toys... er... tools!

Jesse Open

Choices, Spent $200 on a lathe instead of that one Saito.

IIRC, Jim has a bigger lathe.

the Wasp

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something else I found that works great for mounting Cowls, using 6 mounting screws instead of just 4, they hold the cowl much better. and 6 screws are less likely to wear out the holes in the cowl from the cowl vibration.

Glowgeek

Best thing for mounting cowls that I've found is drilling 1/8" holes and expoxying in golden rods. The screws hold their tension forever, never will vibrate out to cause wear on cowl surfaces. I buy the servo screws with the rubber coated washers to use as cowl mounting screws. No elogated or wallowed out holes.......ever.

Jesse Open

I often bush the screw holes with servo type brass eyelets.Set the flange faces just proud of flush with the mounting surface. Use screws with smooth shanks that fit the eyelets closely. Never locate thin, fiberglass skins on sharp threads
The bonded neoprene washers work well. Get a lot of usd here I buy them in bags oc 100 at the local industrial supplier.

the Wasp

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yes, I too use the golden rods.
but I am done with using washers to help hold my cowl to the fuse. go back and look at the bottom right of my fuse pic. see the little black square on the yellow. I have this weaved Carbon fiber, it's a mashed like a window screen but much-much tighter. I cut the Carbon out in squares. then drill my holes in the cowl for the servo screws. then, hold the carbon squares to the cowl at the screw holes and put a drop of CA on the carbon. then, from the inside of the cowl I put holes in the carbon. it may not be beautiful and a bit of work, but as I said, I am done with those little washers.

Jesse Open

I like to employ machine screws when possible. To that end, I often utilize brass Fast Thread inserts, Tee-Nuts, Tapping plates, Tinnerman Nuts etc. The Golden Rod does work with machine screws too.


Worked with carbon fiber extensively over a forty plus year time frame. We did hand laid and vac bagged components from small to very large. Automotive and aircraft. Built entire mock ups from CF. Took several manufacturer courses on making certified layups for aerospace applications. We had excellent (or so we thought) ventilation and particulate controls in place.
It was towards the last years that the health risks became better known.

I won't let that stuff into my house!
Fiberglass isn't much, if any better.

Fiber washers also work well. Good friction yet soft bite.

easystar123

So sad to read this Jesse about your friend Al passing away before he got a chance to fly his Sig Kadet Senior Sport. I'm glad that you now have it and it will sound lovely with the Saito 82. Those planes fly great. I've never owned a Kadet Senior, but I do have a Chinese copy made by World Models over ten years ago called the Super Frontier Senior. I still have that plane and was flying it recently. I have a Saito 72 powering it and it flys nice. Best of luck with your Kadet Senior.

Jesse Open

Thanks for the comments, I was beginning to think my time posting was wasted again!
One person can make it all worthwhile.
Al was a great friend who had long endured. We had lunch together with a couple other old-timers a few days before he passed. Years ago I had helped him restore his 1958 Austin Mini. It brought the family a good bit at the estate sale
His period style, hot rodded 1953 Plymouth Coupe also did well.

That Chinese Senior looks good. Probably the same folks who made Sig's ARF for them.
Looks like a set of Dubro wheels there.
So, for all intents you do have a Kadet Sr. Just a brother from a different mother.

Thanks again.