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Yak Man Club Member Galactic Twinkie Jet Pilot Extraordinaire Offline Forum User LastOn: Today Join: Mar 23^rd, 2010 Posts: 1,001 Reputation: 0 Gender: Zodiac sign: Awards: 5 Mood:	New Toy Jan 10^th, 2016 at 8:00am Not going to due a build thread, just some pictures of my Turbinator. Michele got me this for Christmas.
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Yak Man Club Member Galactic Twinkie Jet Pilot Extraordinaire Offline Forum User LastOn: Today Join: Mar 23^rd, 2010 Posts: 1,001 Reputation: 0 Gender: Zodiac sign: Awards: 5 Mood:	Re: New Toy Reply #1 - Jan 10^th, 2016 at 8:05am It's a 100 inch wing and takes a 30lb of thrust size turbine. First I did was build a crutch and frame up the fuse.
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Yak Man Club Member Galactic Twinkie Jet Pilot Extraordinaire Offline Forum User LastOn: Today Join: Mar 23^rd, 2010 Posts: 1,001 Reputation: 0 Gender: Zodiac sign: Awards: 5 Mood:	Re: New Toy Reply #2 - Jan 10^th, 2016 at 8:09am Once the formers are in place it was time to add the sides.
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Yak Man Club Member Galactic Twinkie Jet Pilot Extraordinaire Offline Forum User LastOn: Today Join: Mar 23^rd, 2010 Posts: 1,001 Reputation: 0 Gender: Zodiac sign: Awards: 5 Mood:	Re: New Toy Reply #3 - Jan 10^th, 2016 at 8:14am The original design is nice but I decided to mod mine out a little. So a different style top is what I went for. I also lengthen the fuse by about 8 inches.
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Yak Man Club Member Galactic Twinkie Jet Pilot Extraordinaire Offline Forum User LastOn: Today Join: Mar 23^rd, 2010 Posts: 1,001 Reputation: 0 Gender: Zodiac sign: Awards: 5 Mood:	Re: New Toy Reply #4 - Jan 10^th, 2016 at 8:17am Vertical fin is build and installed.
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yorcram Club Member Offline Forum User LastOn: Yesterday Join: Mar 12^th, 2015 Posts: 279 Reputation: 0 Sackville,NS Gender: Awards: 1 Mood:	Re: New Toy Reply #5 - Jan 10^th, 2016 at 9:59am Kewel kit, And I see you're watching a classic too Marc
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Fingers YaBB Moderator I still got all five! Offline Forum User LastOn: Today Join: Mar 22^nd, 2010 Posts: 3,096 Reputation: 0 Dartmouth Gender: Zodiac sign: Awards: 3 Mood:	Re: New Toy Reply #6 - Jan 10^th, 2016 at 11:26am love the smell of kerosene - morning, afternoon, evening...
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waverider Aerobatic Pilot The Great White Flounder Offline Frozen Solid LastOn: Aug 7^th, 2020 Join: Nov 8^th, 2010 Posts: 499 Reputation: 0 Edmonton Gender: Zodiac sign: Awards: 1 Mood:	Re: New Toy Reply #7 - Jan 10^th, 2016 at 12:28pm some light reading vintage 2000 http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/rc-jets-120/10793168-enlarged-zirioli-turbinator...
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Yak Man Club Member Galactic Twinkie Jet Pilot Extraordinaire Offline Forum User LastOn: Today Join: Mar 23^rd, 2010 Posts: 1,001 Reputation: 0 Gender: Zodiac sign: Awards: 5 Mood:	Re: New Toy Reply #8 - Jan 10^th, 2016 at 6:39pm Hatch has been released and the turtle deck is installed and planked up.
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JackDD Club Member Offline Forum User LastOn: Yesterday Join: Apr 25^th, 2010 Posts: 542 Reputation: 0 Gender: Awards: 2 Mood:	Re: New Toy Reply #9 - Jan 11^th, 2016 at 7:32am Geez Al, you could almost jump in😁
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waverider Aerobatic Pilot The Great White Flounder Offline Frozen Solid LastOn: Aug 7^th, 2020 Join: Nov 8^th, 2010 Posts: 499 Reputation: 0 Edmonton Gender: Zodiac sign: Awards: 1 Mood:	Re: New Toy Reply #10 - Jan 11^th, 2016 at 4:40pm Al you seem to be using medium cynoacrylate and kicker for a lot of the assembly we have been having trouble with mercury adhesives what brands are you using and what strength are you getting? thanks Brian
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Yak Man Club Member Galactic Twinkie Jet Pilot Extraordinaire Offline Forum User LastOn: Today Join: Mar 23^rd, 2010 Posts: 1,001 Reputation: 0 Gender: Zodiac sign: Awards: 5 Mood:	Re: New Toy Reply #11 - Jan 11^th, 2016 at 5:18pm Brian There is some CA in there but most of the construction is done with ProBond. The formers are Hysol in place. Tail is built now. I stuck it in there for a little look.
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Fingers YaBB Moderator I still got all five! Offline Forum User LastOn: Today Join: Mar 22^nd, 2010 Posts: 3,096 Reputation: 0 Dartmouth Gender: Zodiac sign: Awards: 3 Mood:	Re: New Toy Reply #12 - Jan 11^th, 2016 at 7:34pm brian - what trouble are you having with Mercury? Like to know since it has become the LHS only product!!
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Steve Mosher Club Member Offline LastOn: May 9^th, 2024 Join: Mar 24^th, 2010 Posts: 464 Reputation: 0 Gender: Awards: 4	Re: New Toy Reply #13 - Jan 11^th, 2016 at 9:05pm Nice, Al!!
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Yak Man Club Member Galactic Twinkie Jet Pilot Extraordinaire Offline Forum User LastOn: Today Join: Mar 23^rd, 2010 Posts: 1,001 Reputation: 0 Gender: Zodiac sign: Awards: 5 Mood:	Re: New Toy Reply #14 - Jan 13^th, 2016 at 4:56pm Here's a few pictures of the struts I've been working in for this plane. The mains are just about done. The nose need to be in the airframe to finalize it's length.
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Yak Man Club Member Galactic Twinkie Jet Pilot Extraordinaire Offline Forum User LastOn: Today Join: Mar 23^rd, 2010 Posts: 1,001 Reputation: 0 Gender: Zodiac sign: Awards: 5 Mood:	Re: New Toy Reply #15 - Jan 13^th, 2016 at 4:57pm .
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Fingers YaBB Moderator I still got all five! Offline Forum User LastOn: Today Join: Mar 22^nd, 2010 Posts: 3,096 Reputation: 0 Dartmouth Gender: Zodiac sign: Awards: 3 Mood:	Re: New Toy Reply #16 - Jan 13^th, 2016 at 6:36pm hot damn
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Glen Club Member Offline Forum User LastOn: Yesterday Join: Aug 5^th, 2011 Posts: 442 Reputation: 2 Sackville Gender: Zodiac sign: Awards: 2 Mood:	Re: New Toy Reply #17 - Jan 13^th, 2016 at 7:39pm That's some mighty fine looking aluminum
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Re: New Toy
Reply #18 - Jan 13^th, 2016 at 8:52pm

Fingers wrote on Jan 11^th, 2016 at 7:34pm:

brian - what trouble are you having with Mercury? Like to know since it has become the LHS only product!!

we have been haing problems with the Mercury epoxy(s)
so much so that we have stopped using them

1. epoxy not curing propery 30 minute taking days to even harden
2. strength not what would be expected

the mercury zaps especially the thin are not giving a satisfactory strength joint. sometimes even with kicker the thin and medium do not set up a good cyno -strength jopint

i have had some 30 minute epoxies for 10 years and they still work well
I am searching for a better replacement that is available

I used some bob smith from GH but that too was not curing properly

MIXING i s very important - I know that1

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waverider Aerobatic Pilot The Great White Flounder Offline Frozen Solid LastOn: Aug 7^th, 2020 Join: Nov 8^th, 2010 Posts: 499 Reputation: 0 Edmonton Gender: Zodiac sign: Awards: 1 Mood:	Re: New Toy Reply #19 - Jan 13^th, 2016 at 8:55pm Al your undercarriage design and machining command respect/ great work how about oleo pnematics for you next?
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