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  1. TonyHallo

    The 'What did you do in your workshop tonight?' thread

    The Kadet was a great learning tool for both building and flying. The build instructions were great and detailed all the steps to complete the model. I covered mine with Monokote and it was powered by a Fox .40, another favorite smell, burning glow fuel! One of the club members recommended...
  2. TonyHallo

    Scale RCM 1/3 Scale Champ Build

    I have two temp sensors on each cylinder and they rarely get over 230f. It takes close to 9 minutes to fly the routine I'm using for the scale contests. I use full throttle twice during the routine, once during the climb in the Wing Over a short blast on the Overshoot. Other than that it is...
  3. TonyHallo

    Scale RCM 1/3 Scale Champ Build

    While I'll be, never heard of it, thanks Nick, might just make one. The kits are designed for 4" and 6" spinners, the plane doesn't have a spinner. Edit Just ordered two 50mm cooling fan on Amazon, $13. I think that the fans will be mounted to a sheet of 1/16" aluminum that will rest to the...
  4. TonyHallo

    Scale RCM 1/3 Scale Champ Build

    That gets expensive! No, full image. Made it to the field yesterday for one flight, got rained out. The landing gear seems to be better, still need more work. Something odd about the engine, it starts cold and runs fine but after landing it will start hot but once it starts to cool it will...
  5. TonyHallo

    Scale RCM 1/3 Scale Champ Build

    I had discussion with Bill (AKA Gorilla Toast) and Mike Barbee at the scale event last week. Someone ask Mike about his landing during the Romania FAI contest and he said the secret is firm landing gear. I have 50lb/inch springs in my gear and both Mike and Bill felt it is too soft. After...
  6. TonyHallo

    Scale RCM 1/3 Scale Champ Build

    Here's a before and after of the Cub Hub. I don't know the photos came out different size, I used the same procedure to resize them?
  7. TonyHallo

    Mini lathe (and mill) discussion.

    Where's the chips? I make a mess! Nice work Steven.
  8. TonyHallo

    Scale RCM 1/3 Scale Champ Build

    Put the yellow color on the parts. Even these small parts took over an hour to paint. The wings are back together and in the aircraft carrier. I added the backfire tube and the fuel drain tube to the cowl and need to reinstall. I decided to drain the oil catch bottle while the cowl is off...
  9. TonyHallo

    Scale RCM 1/3 Scale Champ Build

    Thank you David. Hope to paint today and put it back together. Need to practice more.
  10. TonyHallo

    Scale RCM 1/3 Scale Champ Build

    The span vents didn't look right based on the three view so I pulled the enlarged three view down from the rafters and measured. The measurement indicate it should be 3/4" in diameter rather than the 1 1/4" so two more were made. I plan to attach these with two sided carpet tape. Right or...
  11. TonyHallo

    Scale RCM 1/3 Scale Champ Build

    More scale details. Made a pitot tube assembly out of 3/32" aluminum TIG filler wire and a few piece of brass sheet. I drilled the velocity tube and put a taper it to make it look like a tube. I think I will center punch the static tube and color the marks with black the simulate holes. Also...
  12. TonyHallo

    Scale RCM 1/3 Scale Champ Build

    The spinner came out nice, much more scale looking. We'll see how the judges pick it apart because it is still a little larger than scale. It looks like the prop hubs on on models are larger than the full scale props so it going to look OK I hope! Polished with 220, 400, 800, 1200, 1500...
  13. TonyHallo

    Scale RCM 1/3 Scale Champ Build

    I have decided to enter the Champ into the scale judging competition at the up coming NASA Fall Classic event in less than three weeks. There are a few changes that i need to make to improve the scale details. This change is to the Cub Hub spinner. The Champ spinner is quite small as shown in...
  14. TonyHallo

    Discussion The I’m Going/Went Flying Thread

    Oh and by the way, three planes ended up in the beans and the Champ wasn't one of them!
  15. TonyHallo

    Discussion The I’m Going/Went Flying Thread

    Flight line on Saturday during the event. I had a great time talking with other fliers with similar interests. Jeff Clombs flew in with the Rans M21 that he build. Jeff was pattern guy back in the day, I remember seeing him in a booth at Toledo cutting foam cores with a CNC hot wire cutter...
  16. TonyHallo

    Discussion The I’m Going/Went Flying Thread

    The opposite side is protected by soy beans
  17. TonyHallo

    Discussion The I’m Going/Went Flying Thread

    Flight line at the CORKS scale event. I came a day early to practice, good thing, the runway is much narrower than I’m accustomed to
  18. TonyHallo

    Scale BUSA Super Cub

    Aero Graphics cut the NO STEP, DO NOT PUSH, and NO HOLD graphics from their standard set of exterior graphics for the Super Cub. I know where the NO STEP goes, anyone have an idea where the rest belong? Only exterior I found on the Super Cub drawing site were for a military PA18.
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