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

[dhal22]

$1.67 on eBay, plus a couple to ship.

 

[49dimes]

One thing I noticed in an 8oz tank is that tygon is not flexible enough with the short length of fuel tubing inside the tank. I used Viton and still wasn't that impressed and ended up using the ZF-4 instead. Not a problem with my 14-16oz tanks... unless you forget to change your stiff tygon out
Curious what tank you are using that is 10oz????

It's a DuBro 10oz modified. Instead of all three lines coming from the stopper / bung... the fuel fill line penetrates the tank itself with a brass fitting and O ring. This was done for two reasons...1) have a scale fuel dot to "mimic the fuel level indicator" and 2) let the tank fit inside as short as possible from the back of the fire wall and on its side in order to allow an almost "full length" cabin interior. There is a pick of it somewhere in this thread lol

I have been using the China poly tubing. It has been siliconized to stay flexible and not harden.

 

[Snoopy1]

Well did something useful to day my wife was busy cleaning up some old stuff in the house and was throwing some kind of quilted material. I looked at it and said you throwing that out Yes. So grabbed it and made a set of wing covers for my 20cc plane just big enough. Looks ok and will be a lot easier to transport now and the wing-tube fits into the wing bag.

 

[AKNick]

Decided it was time. DA-35. Walbro D20-WAT gasket kit. Cleaned the needles, screen, and plunger. Replaced the pulse line. Saw one of four reeds was floating a little high, so I flipped it around.
Should be good to go!

 

[Snoopy1]

Has any one of you gentlemen used one of these mufflers. Mac-6860.

 

[BalsaDust]

Couple years ago wife and I found this old desk fan at a yard sale. Finally getting around to restoring it. Should look pretty sweet when done.

 

[Alky6]

Besides elbow grease, what did you do/use to clean it up? Looks like new parts.

 

[BalsaDust]

The outer casing parts that where all painted and will get repainted got put in the sandblaster. All internal parts where put in a heated parts washer and some red Scotch brite pads used on stubborn stuff. The fan blade and blade guard are aluminum and I plan to polish them up really nice so I let them soak in parts washer longer and used a plastic bristle brush to scrub with as I didn’t want more scratches that would be harder to polish out. Gaurd still needs more work though.

Plan is to paint it black with white accents.

Thing that annoys me the most is there are no markings at all anywhere on it and I would really like to know who the manufacturer of it was.

 

[not ruthless]

Sweet! Reminds me of my Grandma's. I can still hear the squeek when it would oscillate.

 

[BalsaDust]

Sweet! Reminds me of my Grandma's. I can still hear the squeek when it would oscillate.

I’m gonna see if a buddy can 3D print me a new gear for mine as one of the plastic gears in the box that makes it oscialte is missing half the teeth.