DH 103

[A.A. Barry]

Hi all, more done on the Fuz, removed the "top" from the board, and added the formers, then the fuz doublers and finally the sides, the lower strips where done in 2 parts, evenly "puuled together to avoid twisting the rear end

   

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here i test the retract tail wheel, I have to "angle"

it a bit backwards to get the "sit right"

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then finally the outer sheeting

[A.A. Barry]

Ok, now back to the tail feathers, inbtween spasm of pain from an old broken tooth, which I had excavated testerday morning, I managed to "skin" the tailplane and 1 elevator, "back sanded the main spar rear edge to accomadate the rounded ft spar of the elevator plus guessimated the hingeing line, which turn out to be correct, none of this on the plan, it shows a "slab" of 3/16, so I altered the construction of them both, anyway, there is only 2 hinges showing 3rd will be done today....enjoy

The darker strip is 1/16 ply for added strength  

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A little bit of work on the canopy, opening and closing idea, used the lathe to "turn down" pulleys which will carry the "trace" from the Ft of F2 to a drum servo at the rear

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Now the Fin and Rudder, unercutting the rudder 1/2 circle in the fin post, is always, to me , a "task" so came to thinking about this idea

you can see a tube wraped in "sticky back" strips of 80 grit paper, spun on the lathe  

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THe result was good, but came

light not good, so the frame of the fin is here, it looks a little bulky, but most will be sanded away before sheeting

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Gents, I have been in contact with the editor, of the "other mag"  and has taken the  time, to have the plan redrawn, and apoligizes for the over sight, he is sending me a new plan, and a kit of "cut parts" for free, this was not my objective, I was trying to point out, the plan was wrong,  there has been several emails "to and fro", between us and the problem has been resolved.

I have to say, that at no time did he (the editor ) try to "brush me off", and took the time to listen, in the account of the plan being wrong, which I find very very good, and I wish other manufactures of model items would listen to the "end user" a bit more, all over the world.

Any way he has my 3 cheers ,.. Hip,hip.......and so no

Skybolt PM me please, your problem may be fixed as well

A.A Barry

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Still on the tailfeathers, fin size has been increase to the corrcet width of scale, locking in the fin to fuz and through the tailplane took a bit f head scratching.

These will not be glued in untill I recieve more "stuff", the wife calls it, so I pinned it to dream about the end result, (we all do)

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WEll that was a head ,@#$$%^^, not to be able to post on site using "google chrome" as the .........whatever they call it, had to reload it all, useing "explorer", so there you have leant another lesson

Edited By A.A. Barry on 03/08/2010 12:33:29

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You will note a normal cig. light, for comparison

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block balsa, scraps from a surf board shop, to form up the nose cone

Ok that's it for for now

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H, gents, more done on the rear end, I finally received the tailwheel retract servo, mounted that to a ply plate and fitted the pipes and coupling linkage, mounted the retract unit, tilted back a little to get the wheel to hide in the fuz, all that done now to block up the lower rear to get the shape.

Before all thi was done I had to realize that after that, all access to the rudder horn and elevator horn had to be accessable from the top, before I glued those into place, which as I get to I will show you

Pic time

 

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A lot of thought of where, how to steer the the beast, the servo position was placed a little towards the rear, as being mini one I don't think that there is a weight factor, fishing "trace" is fed through the other formers on it's way to the retract arms, placed in the steering position and sprung loaded, it will take any accidental sideways shock on the ground, when folded the wires will become loose and not stress the servo gears when the rudder moves in the air, which will be "y" coupled to the servo, I hope

  

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The wires are just loosely crimped at the moment, so I can get final adj later, in an other thread, I was looking for "reverse cams for OS 56a Fs engines, no luck one of our members suggest the guru, Brain Winch, who gave me recomendations for my plight, contra rotating props

On his advise he suggested Saito engines( 1) which can be reversed, with a few mods, fortunately a club mate had 2 which had only done 10 flights, so now they are mine Fs 56.

So that's it for now, I will go to the other thread and add brains thought a little bit further

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I forgot to add the 2 air tanks, that have been mounted in the fuz in front of the tail wheel servo former, underneath them is the rudder and elevator nyrods

One has is dented ( more underneath) , which "Towers" replaced