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  • 4 weeks later...

Jet Pipe 44mm round with a 6mm lip:

I know it's a bit out of sequence but I've made my jet pipe with brown paper and pva. Save's on finding a 'Elizabeth Earle' bottle. The actual bottle I have found is cheap enough to trim and cut up and you could use the bottom of it, however my method does show another way of making the A4 jet pipe.

Next few photo's will help:

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You can buy a cheap bottle from Wilko's ( Hardware store in UK)

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I made a 3mm thick lite ply ring that fits over the bottle, the outer wood from the hole is 6mm deep and marked off with spaced out graduations. I covered the ply ring with clear tape to stop it being stuck to anything.

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Using the ply ring as a pattern, I marked on the brown paper and cut out 3 circles and cut 6mm down the graduation lines. The 6mm wide x 300mm long brown paper is the glued and wrapped around the edge to make the pipe/tube end stout.

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Coat the brown paper in neat pva and form and mould around the bottom of the bottle with all 3 pieces.

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When dry you can slip it off the bottle.

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Looks about right. What do you think?

 

Edited By Mark Kettle 1 on 04/08/2016 11:13:59

Edited By Mark Kettle 1 on 04/08/2016 11:15:59

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Well Phil -DIY- finished fixing the front door and got the shower installed and with only doing 20 hours a week at work there's a little more time ( not many business people going too Heathrow in the holidays) so before I went to Soho London today I made it, it was dry when I got back.

Edited By Mark Kettle 1 on 04/08/2016 20:37:33

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I've chosen the scheme for my Skyhawk. Its going to be the VMA-224 << Bengals >>. A Marine Attack Squadron, in 1956 the squadron started conversion to the A4D-1, after this training they transferred to Iwakuni Japan in October 1957 to support ground forces in the area of the Philippines. At the end of 1958 VMA-224 settled at MCAS Cherry Point. August 1960 came a tour of duty in the Mediterranean on board USS Saratoga and took part in exercises led by the Vlth Fleet

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The main reason for choosing this scheme is the WK on the fin. My mum's initials. W = Winifred.

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After many tour and manoeuvres around the world they returned to Cherry Point North Carolina in November 1966 and renamed Marine All-Weather Attack Squadron however re-equipped with Grumman A-6 Intruders. 

Edited By Mark Kettle 1 on 31/08/2016 11:46:52

Edited By Mark Kettle 1 on 31/08/2016 11:48:08

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Not sure, but I've got this afternoon off and I'm going to make a start. I fell like Mr O'Reilly on 'Faulty Towers'

"This one hear (fuselage) 1 1/2 hours, look look this one is easy (wing) lick of paint - lick of paint 1 hour, lick paint, What time is it now? Ten past twelve, so that's 4 1/2 hours plenty of time"

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