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  1. Jetpainter

    The I'm going out flying thread 2016

    Hopefully it's not a bad batch of 28 x 9 1/2's since I just bought one from Tim too.:oblong:
  2. Jetpainter

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

    I've had a few days lately when I could use some of that.:yesss:
  3. Jetpainter

    GSN GIVE-A-WAY Hangar 9 35% Extra 300X Assembly

    Tonight I decided to tackle the vent hole in the bottom of the fuse. Hangar 9 wants you to cut the covering off a giant hole in the bottom of the airplane. There is no way I could stand having a 5" x 9" gaping wound in the bottom of my airplane so I decided to make a vented plate to go in the...
  4. Jetpainter

    The I'm going out flying thread 2016

    Sorry to hear that Rob. I know you loved that airplane and had a ton of time in it.
  5. Jetpainter

    GSN GIVE-A-WAY Hangar 9 35% Extra 300X Assembly

    Thanks, I'm hoping to have the majority of it done by the end of this weekend. Time will tell.
  6. Jetpainter

    GSN GIVE-A-WAY Hangar 9 35% Extra 300X Assembly

    Today I spent quite a bit of time on the Extra. I decided I hate the tail wheel and I've heard about some of them breaking, so I changed the carriage to a Pilot one I had on hand. I had to make a few custom parts to make it work, but I'm happy with the results. I just never liked the Hangar 9...
  7. Jetpainter

    GSN GIVE-A-WAY Hangar 9 35% Extra 300X Assembly

    Yes, they discontinued the PowerSafe Telemetry receivers the day I went to buy one. I found out a few days later that a friend had a new, old style 12 channel that he had never used and wanted to sell so I jumped on it. The reason I have 5000mah batteries is that a friend basically gave them to...
  8. Jetpainter

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

    The statue is cool too!
  9. Jetpainter

    GSN GIVE-A-WAY Hangar 9 35% Extra 300X Assembly

    Last night I finished rehinging the rudder. I started by drilling new holes and fitting the hinges. Then I needed to fill in the slots from the original hinges with balsa wood. After trimming and sanding my balsa plugs I covered them with some red striping tape I had on hand. It's not a perfect...
  10. Jetpainter

    Share your great building tips

    When your working on a fiberglass part or on a fiberglassed balsa wing or fuse, your always chasing those pesky pinholes. After you first time you prime, but before you sand, take a powerful beam flashlight and shine it at a shallow angle across the surface. It will make even small pinholes show...
  11. Jetpainter

    Scale 25% Krier Kraft build, a tribute to grampa.

    Man that thing looks awesome! You should be very proud of your work. And that's an awesome feeling isn't it? You stand back and look at it a say "Wow! I built that".:big_yes:
  12. Jetpainter

    Scale 25% Krier Kraft build, a tribute to grampa.

    Very Cool!
  13. Jetpainter

    Scale 50cc Scratch Build From My Own Design Revisited

    Repairing the tab I had to saw off shouldn't be too hard, I'll Dremel out the leftover part in the hatch and make a new one. We did some damage to the outside trying to grab the bolt with pliers to put some pressure on the blind nut to get it out, with no luck. To get the hatch high enough to...
  14. Jetpainter

    Scale 50cc Scratch Build From My Own Design Revisited

    As some of you may know if you saw my post in the "I'm going out flying" thread I took Miss Moana out yesterday and it turned into a very frustrating day indeed. For those of you that didn't see that post the first flight went well, other than the engine being rich. I did test the CG in a 45...
  15. Jetpainter

    Aircraft International and Gerhard Stejskal

    Fly that baby!
  16. Jetpainter

    GSN GIVE-A-WAY Hangar 9 35% Extra 300X Assembly

    Tonight after spending a couple hours searching the Internet for stab tube for Miss Moana I worked on rehinging the rudder. I decided instead of buying Robart hinges without the pins I would remove the pins from some I had here. It didn't take very long at all to file the swedged end right off...
  17. Jetpainter

    GSN GIVE-A-WAY Hangar 9 35% Extra 300X Assembly

    After my disappointing day at the field with Miss Moana I came home and worked on the Extra. Last night I had worked on finishing up the ignition install and built some brackets to mount the Taildragger aileron harness plugs. This afternoon I installed the harnesses and test fitted the...
  18. Jetpainter

    Scale 25% Krier Kraft build, a tribute to grampa.

    Looks great!
  19. Jetpainter

    The I'm NOT going out flying thread.

    Yuck!
  20. Jetpainter

    The I'm going out flying thread 2016

    I went flying today. It was hot, but No Rain and No Wind! I took my scratch build "Miss Moana". The first flight was pretty good, even though it was running very rich. It must have been just on the borderline last week, when the humidity was ridiculously low and in today's nasty humidity it went...
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