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

[Snoopy1]

Well spent the last 5 days behind the computer drawing up a new front end to the fuselage that I cleaned up. It is all laid out for an electrical set up, should be interesting. Will try to take a picture of the screen tomorrow.

 

[49dimes]

Was quite a chore but I did get the belly access panel done. Being I did it all by hand and sanded the edges of the openings I am going to prime and paint instead of covering it. I also made some servo arms from old mild steel arms, that came from a cheap ARF, by adapting aluminum servo wheels to them. The hangar 9 arms I had are 25T spline and Spektrum servos are 23T spline. My old arthritic fingers are not laser sharp ya know .

 

[pawnshopmike]

Was quite a chore but I did get the belly access panel done. Being I did it all by hand and sanded the edges of the openings I am going to prime and paint instead of covering it. I also made some servo arms from old mild steel arms, that came from a cheap ARF, by adapting aluminum servo wheels to them. The hangar 9 arms I had are 25T spline and Spektrum servos are 23T spline. My old arthritic fingers are not laser sharp ya know .

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Great job brother! Those servo arms look factory. Belly pan looks awesome too.

 

[Snoopy1]

Those fingers may be old but they still do a good job. Cover came out good and the servo arms look factory. Nice job.

 

[acerc]

I have been working on a better way to secure temp sensors and came across these (1st pic) but I am only using the brass part
(2nd pic), they go on the spark plug. They are working rather well and would like to find a source just for the brass part. Does anyone know where the brass part could be bought.

 

[Rusty 73]

Phone DA they use heat sensors placed under the plug .

 

[Rusty 73]

49dimes that vented belly pan looks better than factory love your work

 

[Snoopy1]

Spent a little time today working the design for the fuselage on AutoCAD. Hope the picture shows some of the work. Got the cowl figured out. Now all I have to do is to see how to make a canopy that does not look to bad.

 

[Snoopy1]

I have been working on a better way to secure temp sensors and came across these (1st pic) but I am only using the brass part
(2nd pic), they go on the spark plug. They are working rather well and would like to find a source just for the brass part. Does anyone know where the brass part could be bought.

You can get those from an electrical department in auto store. It is a wire crimp for wiring. The one you are showing are normally used under a fog light mounting bolt for grounding.

 

[49dimes]

You can get those from an electrical department in auto store. It is a wire crimp for wiring. The one you are showing are normally used under a fog light mounting bolt for grounding.

Great advice. I have done that very thing. Work great on a CM6 plug.