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

[mndless]

Diamond plate pegboard?!?!

Yep.. stuff is real nice looking.... and weighs close to nothing.

http://diamondlifegear.com/pegboard.htm

 

[sweetpea]

Man...if they were cheaper.......that blue anodized would look great in my shop! With how I'm doing white walls, black beams, black/grey checker floor and blue border on the floor. It's just too pricey. I'll just paint some normal pegboard with metallic paint.

 

[HornetNZ]

Looking for ideas - Trying to get my choke rod setup. The cowl opening is mostly closed off with lite ply, so makes it difficult. In the pics, I have it coming almost straight out, which works...but there's not much room between the plane of the prop and the ply of the cowl. Enough, but not much. And, I'd have to keep the end of the rod straight so I can remove the cowl if needed, which makes it harder to operate.
I could try a bellcrank into the fuse and out the side, but I really don't have much room on the fuel tank tray for that, and any farther forward would have it sticking out the side of the cowl.
This is my first gasser, so am totally open to ideas!
Hoping to find a good solution that doesn't involve too much work, as I'm moving in 2 weeks and would like to maiden before that!

 

[thurmma]

Why not put it on a servo? That is what I have done with all of my GS planes and it works great. Just run the rod through the firewall to a separate servo. It also gives you another way to kill the engine if you need to

 

[pawnshopmike]

Tonight I added some led strip lights to my 40" GSN Extra. Getting it ready for a night fly tomorrow night in Eureka MO.
I know I know, the left side should be red.bBut yellow was the closest I had on hand.

 

[BalsaDust]

Replaced all the rusty bearings and cleaned up the insides of these two OS 46ax motors. All ready for a couple of 40 size profiles.

 

[mndless]

Building this Hostetler cessna 182 and as noted earlier, didn't want to use the heavy plywood spars for the wing attachment. I found a picture online of what these spars look like. Lasered up some parts to use a CF wing tube. Got the main parts glued in.

 

[Jetpainter]

I glassed the fuselage on my scratch build project.

 

[ChickenBalls]

@emtp275 and I installed bowman ring in my EME60, and put a falcon CF 24x9 on her, SWEET, gained 300 rpm just off first run, tons more compression. I'm coming over to the DARK side also, switching to redline oil. THe carbon build up wasn't bad, but it was there, all but looked like the ring was stuck

 

[BalsaDust]

I glassed the fuselage on my scratch build project.





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