Shane Sunday
-
Posts
503 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Blogs
Gallery
Calendar
Downloads
Everything posted by Shane Sunday
-
-
-
-
-
Love tge sound of that prop. He was truly putting her through the paces.
-
finishing my BT 61.5 Corsair
Shane Sunday replied to Shane Sunday's topic in Build Blogs and Kit Reviews
Hey guys. I've been pottering Way trying figure out the ailerons. didnt like the ones id made from depron and id found one of the originals id made from balsa years ago. So ive copiec that one using blue foam hotwire cut with a bit of LE stock and covered with 2mm depron. SORTED. Then life got in the way. We've had some brilliant weather and I managed to get out flying today. A bit windy but sure any chance will do. I have managed to steal a coiple moments here and there. The wing is glassed and ive made the oleo door, im just going for wheel wells in the wing so no retract doors, no extra actuators and no extra weight. I've got the retracts installed and they work brilliantly. I've to finish boxing in the wheel wells with some 1mm balsa. This is tricky with the bent wing you cant just roll it up and let it go. So its slow. I was thinking to finish with epoxy and cloth but I might try epoxy and light tissue. This little door is made from 2 layers of heavy weight cloth and finished with 45gm cloth. Its flexible and light but the retract keeps it from sitting flush. Ill have to sort something out. Going sparingly with with the CA here. I dont have the foam safe stuff. and who wouldnt want a retract shot. I think i was trying to see exactly where the door sat. Well thats it for now. -
-
-
-
-
Easy Built PBY Catalina a 20 year wait is over
Shane Sunday replied to Robert Parker's topic in Traditional kits
Hey Robert. In all of my builds ive only ever extebded the battery wires. One as long as 2 and a half foot. This was my F18. It ran on 4s 4000mah 35c lipos and worked a treat. -
Easy Built PBY Catalina a 20 year wait is over
Shane Sunday replied to Robert Parker's topic in Traditional kits
Hello there Robert. 12awg is typically 2.o5mm diameter, 14awg is 1.63 and 16awg is 1.29. I just got this from a search I did so not my info but perhaps it'll help. If it were me I'd go with 14awg. I'd also keep the motor wires short and try to keep those speed controllers in the nacelles. This way youve less weight with only 4 wires to lengthen instead of 6. Hope this helps. -
Easy Built PBY Catalina a 20 year wait is over
Shane Sunday replied to Robert Parker's topic in Traditional kits
The catalina is a beautiful bird I hope to see this one fly. You're coming along nicely sith the build. I think you could get away with the 16 swg wire for the motors. The leads on the motors themselves shouldn't be much smaller. Here's a question for you... What gauge are the leads on your speed controller? This will help decide much easier. best of luck to you -
finishing my BT 61.5 Corsair
Shane Sunday replied to Shane Sunday's topic in Build Blogs and Kit Reviews
Using the fuselage as reference I've blended the belly pan . there was additional space to be filled at tthe edge, this was done with a 6mm peice of depron and a 2mm peice as well. Also at the LE balsa was added to strengthen the wing seat. Then light filler was used to blend the radiators to the belly pan. This isnt going to be scale in any sense but it will still look like a corsair in the air I hope. I just had to get the glass on the bottom. As ive said before depron has very little strength and dings easily. So 48gm glass was used for the bottom of the wing and 25 grm will be used for the top. I use an SP system 5:1 epoxy fast cure. I mixed up 50grms of epoxy for one side and using a playing card spread the epoxy over the wing making sure there were no dry spots. I picked this tip up from another forum and it works a treat. Repeated this step for the other side and left to set. I must be getting better at this stuff as next time i think ill use 30grms i had so much wastage. ive also picked up the book Whistling death by Boone T Guyton. The test pilots story of the F4U Corsair. Its a fantastic read wonderful to read about the trials and tribulations that brought this bird to bear. -
-
-
-
-
finishing my BT 61.5 Corsair
Shane Sunday replied to Shane Sunday's topic in Build Blogs and Kit Reviews
Thanks for looking in Dave. I have to remind myself that slow and steady wins the race. I've been plodding away at the belly pan. I've made it from blue foam cut using Hotwire and formers from Brian's plan. It worked great but I forgot to take into account the shape of the lower wing so one step forward and two back. I've also attached the wing and found a considerable gap near the LE between the fuse and the wing. It seems I wasn't much of a builder 5 years ago. So I've got to fill this gap but do I use balsa? Depron? Or an epoxy goop mixture. I think it was micro balloons? Unsure how to proceed. I do know I've got to get this wing glassed soon or else it'll mainly be light weight filler. 😉 -
finishing my BT 61.5 Corsair
Shane Sunday replied to Shane Sunday's topic in Build Blogs and Kit Reviews
Heres the photos ive also tried making a dummy radiator from lithoplate. This stuff is like hens teeth so im using it sparingly. Im not overy fussdd with the way this has turned out so i may actually drill holes and cut and bend the litho to simulate vents. -
-
-
-
-
