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Reply #300 - Feb 21st, 2017 at 11:52am
 
Jumpin' juniper fir sure Glen, it wood be yew making fun of my wheels! But oaky dokey, I went to take them off the axles to spruce them up, did my due diligence and found they should be Donelopped (I think that is the same as "Was circumcised"), not Woodyear or BF Woodrich.  Kiss  Wasn't aware the Brits were overly concerned about that stuff, but.......
So poopy.

As an aside, wooden you know it, I now have a copy of the manual for proper application of Hurricane colours and markings. Copies available  Smiley
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Reply #301 - Feb 21st, 2017 at 12:51pm
 
Wheel wells in production. 5.5" OD tube. When balsa comes off it will spring back out a bit and should be easy to fit in the wells.
As an aside, the Hurricane didn't have the wells sheeted as close as we tend to do, too much junk in there that had to be worked on...We like to keep the junk, like mud and grass, out of our wells...
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Reply #302 - Feb 21st, 2017 at 5:34pm
 
Surprised the wheels haven't arrived. I mine arrived last Friday. Thought we ordered the same day.

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Reply #303 - Feb 21st, 2017 at 6:33pm
 
Yeh Marc, but you spent a lot more than I did....
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Reply #304 - Feb 22nd, 2017 at 6:45pm
 
Wheels came today Marc, so onward and upward....
Interesting (to me) little tidbit - I was wondering, way ahead of time, about paint schemes for this beast. Likely be a later plane so the Dark Green and medium Sea Grey seems like a fit ( and different from all the Sewage and Silage ) planes at our field.  THEN I began to wonder about "A" and "B" schemes, and how the two patterns worked.
Come to find out, on Hurricanes at least, the "B" pattern was dropped in January '41, so that makes things easier....
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Reply #305 - Feb 24th, 2017 at 4:27pm
 
Scary moment, but parts sitting up on gear! Still require copious quantities of epoxy on the blind nuts, cause once things are buttoned up, they are buttoned up! On this part of the wing, still need inner flaps and servo, air tank, plumbing, and start the mechanical structure for the 3 piece wing...then sheet bottom. But in the interim, I can use this much for the wing fairings....

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Reply #306 - Feb 24th, 2017 at 6:31pm
 
That's progress, Sandy! Looks great standing up on her own.

Makes me keen to get back to work - been wanting to do a road trip all winter. May have to head to island tomorrow for paint.
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Reply #307 - Feb 24th, 2017 at 7:01pm
 
Head to Cdn Tire for paint Steve. With gas you don't need special stuff, rattle cans will work fine. Take something with you to match the can cover - close enough..?
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Reply #308 - Mar 15th, 2017 at 10:55am
 
And now there's an engine for the Hurricane and Spit...

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Reply #309 - Nov 5th, 2017 at 3:11pm
 
All Right now!! I'm back.  Thank You Loyal Fans  Glen is taking odds on how long I keep at it this time...

Starting to fit the 1/32 ply saddles. Because of the steep curve at the front, I'm wetting and clamping before gluing...
These are Roy's saddles, and I think they are way too large for a Hurricane. He put what looks like Spitfire saddles on the plane. As best I can work from his plans these things are much too wide, but they fit the wing trailing edge and fuse so I have to go with them for a while. I guess I don't have the imagination to make the mod off the plane, so once these two pieces are on, I'll flip the fuse and work from that side. Hopefully I can adjust the curve from fuse to wing so it won't look too Spittish (!). Sorry Mike, nothing against Spit's but......well, you know.. Trash Talk
Also, he has the front of the saddle, from the middle clamp to the front, filled with body fill! Now I'm not as familiar with the stuff as maybe Todd is, but that stuff is heavy!  Angry Gonna have to figure out a better way to fill the curve....
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Reply #310 - Nov 5th, 2017 at 6:08pm
 
Can you say microballoons and epoxy?  Wink
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Reply #311 - Nov 7th, 2017 at 11:53am
 
Since the top down view of Roy's plan seems close, the problem, as I see it, is in the concave of the saddle. Spit's had big sweeping shallow curves while Hurri's came more down then bent to the wing... Huh Sign
Guess I'm going to just recurve the sheet metal....you can see (hopefully) what I'm going to sand out of the gussets that form the curve. The back gusset, in the second photo, has already got the steeper curve. The one I show yet to be sanded goes at former 5 where I have it placed for show and tell, then there's another at 4. From the back, up to 4 is sheeting, then Roy gets to body fill/micro balloon stuffy.
Maybe, with the right soft 1/16 sheeting, I can get it to bend enough to use it instead of bf/mb. At least I can fill the space with 1/4 stock as filler  Wall Bash Time to Build
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Reply #312 - Nov 7th, 2017 at 8:10pm
 
OK! The template from the plans isn't quite right, but once I get the bend set in I can trim and poke and prod and rebend  Beating A Dead Horse and get something close to what I want. What isn't apparent from the template was I think the top of this sheet has to be curved at the back end, to allow wrapping around the bottom of the fuse.  Huh Sign again!
Nothing glued. Just have to get a curve in the pieces so I can start fitting.
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Don't know if it's obvious, but the faring does have a much sharper curve than the spit..
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Starting to fit the 1/32 ply saddles. Because of the steep curve at the front, I'm wetting and clamping before gluing...
These are Roy's saddles, and I think they are way too large for a Hurricane. He put what looks like Spitfire saddles on the plane. As best I can work from his plans these things are much too wide, but they fit the wing trailing edge and fuse so I have to go with them for a while. I guess I don't have the imagination to make the mod off the plane, so once these two pieces are on, I'll flip the fuse and work from that side. Hopefully I can adjust the curve from fuse to wing so it won't look too Spittish (!). Sorry Mike, nothing against Spit's but......well, you know.. Trash Talk



No worries.  Good on you for noticing the inaccuracy.  Attention to detail is a good thing.





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Reply #314 - Nov 9th, 2017 at 4:18pm
 
OPINION TIME!!!!!!!!!
Not that I'm going to necessarily take anyone's opinion, but.....
pic 1 and 2 show the curve of the saddle on a real honest to goodyness Hurricane.... and pic 3 is the ply base for the saddle from the plans..The ply seat that is there is per plan, the black line is what, to me, looks gooder.....ideas?  Help Me Anyone Thanks
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Reply #315 - Nov 9th, 2017 at 4:53pm
 
The black line does look "gooder" sandy, except I believe you've swept it out too far at the rear, like the spit.  Closer to the fuse side in the rear is my vote.
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Reply #316 - Nov 9th, 2017 at 5:04pm
 
Thanks Al, and I agree, almost.  Undecided Unfortunately, the back of the wing is set up for this wider fairing. Tip of the fair meets the end of the flat on the trailing edge. To me, the only way is to keep the "plan view", which seems to match top down down 3 views I have.
Making the concave more caver (?) with the narrower base up front, shallow fair down back........
OR I can rebuild the back of the wing LOLOLOL  Angry

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Reply #317 - Nov 9th, 2017 at 6:24pm
 
Just eyeball it and do what looks best.  We won't tell.
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Reply #318 - Nov 9th, 2017 at 8:00pm
 
Kinda hard to judge from the photo. But looking at the real vs model pics, I think the rear filet needs to ride higher on the fuse. This would also lessen the sharpness of the curve into the wing.

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Reply #319 - Nov 9th, 2017 at 8:11pm
 
Yup and Yup.
Looking at the thing, I might be able to move the back in a bit like Al suggests.....and yes, might be able to pick the back of the fillet up a bit...
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