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  1. TonyHallo

    Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% Piper Cherokee Glass Fuselage Build.

    Put the color to the stabalator tip this morning, three down two to go. Wet sanded the stab plug with 1500, need to pick up some 2000, 2500 and 3000 today.
  2. TonyHallo

    Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% Piper Cherokee Glass Fuselage Build.

    Put the color to the rudder plug this morning. Two down, three to go excluding the yoke. I think the stab tip will be ready to paint this weekend, the wing tips need a lot of work yet. Would like to have the molds completed by end of the month so that I can devote my time to Champ wings and...
  3. TonyHallo

    Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% Piper Cherokee Glass Fuselage Build.

    Was putting some final color coat on the yoke and the paint lifted, darn rattle cans. Rather than try to sand the wrinkles I soaked it in acetone and wiped off all the paint and primer. I wasn't happy with the center section so that is changed now. It is closer to scale now. Still have a few...
  4. TonyHallo

    Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% Piper Cherokee Glass Fuselage Build.

    The Champ came in at 39 pounds, has a wing area of 2800 sq.in., the cubic loading 7.28. I had trouble early on that I thought was due weight however the problem actually ended up being lack of sufficient down and right thrust. The first 30% Cherokee came in at 30 pounds with an area 2000 sq...
  5. TonyHallo

    Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% Piper Cherokee Glass Fuselage Build.

    Wing Tips, not shoes! First the foam blanks are rough cut to the airfoil shape and glued onto the short wing section. The wing tip curvature was copied off the three and laid out, a template was made so that both sides are nearly identical. Then the foam was sanded down to the balsa sheeting...
  6. TonyHallo

    Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% Piper Cherokee Glass Fuselage Build.

    I think I'm done with the hot wire bow for a while. Cut a 12" section of the wing tip profile to make molds for the wing tips. Planning to use foam to fashion the plugs, too much balsa would be wasted. On the flip side my pile of heavy 1/8" balsa sheet is getting smaller, kind of happy, too...
  7. TonyHallo

    Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% Piper Cherokee Glass Fuselage Build.

  8. TonyHallo

    Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% Piper Cherokee Glass Fuselage Build.

    Cut a core for the stabalator tip plug. Been playing around with interior details as well, trying to figure out how to make a mold of the yoke.
  9. TonyHallo

    Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% Piper Cherokee Glass Fuselage Build.

    And may I ask why?
  10. TonyHallo

    Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% Piper Cherokee Glass Fuselage Build.

    Two favorite smells; 1. The smell of Monkote, you know the end is near. 2. The smell of foam cutting, the fun is just beginning.
  11. TonyHallo

    Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% Piper Cherokee Glass Fuselage Build.

    Mounted the transformer and hooked up a dimmer switch. Can control the current between 1 and 2 1/2 amps. I think 2 amps may be a good setting. The corrugations went much smoother on the stabalator. I think that all the wood was about the same density so it seemed to cut better. Rather than...
  12. TonyHallo

    Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% Piper Cherokee Glass Fuselage Build.

    So start with the 28 gage nichrome wire with my existing power supply, a low voltage lighting transformer. Doesn't even feel hot. Next try the 26 gage, barely warm. Test voltage and learn it is 12 VAC, now what? Then I remember somewhere I have a transformer that was salvaged from onboard...
  13. TonyHallo

    Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% Piper Cherokee Glass Fuselage Build.

    Pulled the tail cone out of the mold, fits great. Working on the plug for the rudder Got a block of EPS glued up for the stabalator plug. For over thirty years been cutting foam with .025 steel MIG wire, for whatever reason I decided to try nichrome wire. got 100' of 26 and 28 gage to try...
  14. TonyHallo

    Mini lathe (and mill) discussion.

    Looks to be a marine engine.
  15. TonyHallo

    Yippee! What the postman brought

    That's a bargain!
  16. TonyHallo

    Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% Piper Cherokee Glass Fuselage Build.

    No, I'm afraid it has been extended to the stabalator.
  17. TonyHallo

    Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% Piper Cherokee Glass Fuselage Build.

    Thanks Steven. Didn't care for the door so made a few changes to the radius on the window and bottom of door. Working on the corrugations on the vertical fin. On several of the ends the router bit must have whipped a bit making an odd shaped end point. Now that several coats of primer are on...
  18. TonyHallo

    Scale Nelitz 1/3 scale Cub build

    You decide! Looks good to me.
  19. TonyHallo

    Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% Piper Cherokee Glass Fuselage Build.

    The weather was good today. Have a little more work to do on the vertical fin however. Mounted and waxed the plug for the tail cone, put a couple coats of PVA on it too. Will start the mold in the morning. Started thinking about the horizontal stabalator an how it will be made, thinking...
  20. TonyHallo

    Scale 112” - Taylorcraft by HeyLuc & Snoopy.

    Yes, get well soon.
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