Jetpainter
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The 'What did you do in your workshop tonight?' thread
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Decal Dennis
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Hey Dennis,
The picture you just posted leaves me with a question. can you scale the wavy flag to 104" long x approximately 24" deep with proportionally correct (length wise) size stars and the break between the blue & red/white right in the middle? It would look AWESOME on the top of my AMR Stick wing. . . . ..
Something like so?...........................
HRRC Flyer
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Yeah, something like that with a couple more stripes and a little less wavy. I know, I know, I'm a picky SOB. . . .
. I will call you in a week or two.
Thanks Buddy
. I will call you in a week or two.Thanks Buddy
stangflyer
I like 'em "BIG"!
So what do you do when your Big Block "Dub" is showing signs it's getting too hot? Well, you cool it off of course. Hee hee...
I took temps on the 210 this morning and was absolutely flabbergasted to discover it is running much too warm for my liking. I decided I needed to give that big boy some fresh air to help keep him cooled down. I figured the best way to do this was to get some of that stale stagnated hot air out of the cowl. Because I have a nice hole in the bottom of the cowl, I decided not to do any more cutting. Cuz we all know how much I just love cutting up a pretty cowl. I went down to the local D and B Supply and picked up a couple of grinding bits for my Dremel and wen to work. Oh my....Yikes, Do I really want to do this?
I really don't see an alternative so, here we go. I started very carefully making my opening ever so gentle. I just don't want to mess this up.
Once I got a rythum down, it really wasn't too tough. Time consuming? Oh you have no idea.
But once I got started, there was no turning back and certainly not going to put it off. Soooo....five hours later and we're done. Yikes.... What fun.
It took a bit, but I kind of like it. I certainly hope it helps the cooling. If not, well then I am planning on opening up "Cheek" vents in front of the cowl in direct line with the cylinder heads. I will then install the same screening material I used on the Cessna and other planes. It looks pretty cool on those. So I figure it will look ok if I need to go to the extreme with cheek vents.
I took temps on the 210 this morning and was absolutely flabbergasted to discover it is running much too warm for my liking. I decided I needed to give that big boy some fresh air to help keep him cooled down. I figured the best way to do this was to get some of that stale stagnated hot air out of the cowl. Because I have a nice hole in the bottom of the cowl, I decided not to do any more cutting. Cuz we all know how much I just love cutting up a pretty cowl. I went down to the local D and B Supply and picked up a couple of grinding bits for my Dremel and wen to work. Oh my....Yikes, Do I really want to do this?
I really don't see an alternative so, here we go. I started very carefully making my opening ever so gentle. I just don't want to mess this up.
Once I got a rythum down, it really wasn't too tough. Time consuming? Oh you have no idea.
But once I got started, there was no turning back and certainly not going to put it off. Soooo....five hours later and we're done. Yikes.... What fun.
It took a bit, but I kind of like it. I certainly hope it helps the cooling. If not, well then I am planning on opening up "Cheek" vents in front of the cowl in direct line with the cylinder heads. I will then install the same screening material I used on the Cessna and other planes. It looks pretty cool on those. So I figure it will look ok if I need to go to the extreme with cheek vents.
Decal Dennis
TEAM EP&G
Yeah, something like that with a couple more stripes and a little less wavy. I know, I know, I'm a picky SOB. . . .
Thanks Buddy
I have to see what I can find to work, I use high resolution pics of the real flag to do that, it's not something I draw up
Xpress
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I have wanted to do this with my Yak for a while but when I opened up my forward cowl vents to fit my mufflers and opened up the rear exit hole in the bottom it turned out to be plenty enough to evacuate the hot air. I figure I'll open up the cowl vents on my next Pilot to make things more 'scale' looking. Looks real good stang
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Snoopy1
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Nice job. You must have been sweating while doing that not to slip. Looks real good.
combat chicken
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Hey Rob.
What type of dremel tool did you use? Did you enter from the outside or inside the cowl when dremeling?
stangflyer
I like 'em "BIG"!
Oh you have no idea the beads I was sweating. Lol.
The part number is 953. It is a cone shaped Grinding Stone. Comes two to a package. I'll try to post a photo. I made three passes on each of the 30 louver vents from the outside. Each one a little deeper. Then angled in to open up the skin on the inside. Then carefully shaped each one. Going inside also to clean up the edges to give a smooth flow of air. It honestly changed temps 50 degrees. I have some photos from inside with cowl in place. Wow, lots of air flow now.