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| LASTWOODSMAN | Scratch Built Curtiss Pusher | Parked | 04-Feb-17 13:17 |  | | Views : 400 | | View of deeper "Dish" side |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Scratch Built Curtiss Pusher | Parked | 04-Feb-17 13:15 |  | | Views : 441 | | 16 wooden spoke assymetrical "Dish" wheel. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Scratch Built Curtiss Pusher | Parked | 04-Feb-17 13:11 |  | | Views : 441 | | Notice the "longer" shinny spacer sleeve, on the bottom of the axle of the wheel jig (right side of pic), used in order to make the "Shallower" dish of the wheel. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Scratch Built Curtiss Pusher | Parked | 04-Feb-17 13:06 |  | | Views : 433 | | All spokes are now in and glued with tiny drops of super thin CA glue. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Scratch Built Curtiss Pusher | Parked | 04-Feb-17 13:04 |  | | Views : 437 | | This is the other "Shallower Dish" side of the wheel - spokes being added - so many spokes close together is causing interference with the four wheel rim mounts of the jig. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Scratch Built Curtiss Pusher | Parked | 04-Feb-17 12:59 |  | | Views : 416 | | This is the "Deeper Dish" side of the wheel - 8 spokes glued in place - notice the "shorter" shinny spacer sleeve on the bottom of the axle of the wheel jig (left side of pic), which lowers the hub from the wheel rim that is positioned on the jig, in order to get a deeper dish when installing the spokes at a downward angle from the wheel rim. |
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| LASTWOODSMAN | Scratch Built Curtiss Pusher | Parked | 04-Feb-17 12:50 |  | | Views : 404 | | I used an "extender tip" on the CA glue bottle to place a tiny drop of glue where the tenon spoke tip went into the mortise hole of the hub. It worked at first, then plugged up - anyone know how to keep them from plugging up? |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Scratch Built Curtiss Pusher | Parked | 04-Feb-17 12:46 |  | | Views : 430 | | Here is that tool (upper right - shiny pin at the tip of a toothpic) making a pin hole into the balsa hub. Then I pushed the long sharp point, of a stained finished toothpic spoke, through the felloe hole of the wheel rim, and into the starter pin hole in the hub, twisting and spinning the spoke into the hub pin hole. I then removed the spoke and cut a little bit off of the pointy tip of the toothpic spoke, stuck it back in, pushed it into the enlarged hub hole, and spinned it nice and tight, and glued the rim felloe hole with the toothpic in it with super thin CA glue. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Scratch Built Curtiss Pusher | Parked | 04-Feb-17 12:30 |  | | Views : 413 | | Checking the allignment of the spokes to the hub attach points. Since the wheel hub was soft balsa, I did not have to actually drill the tiny holes in the hub. I started the mortise holes in the hub with the point of a round head 0.023" dia. pin. I made a little tool to push the pin point into the hub for a starter hole. I cut off the tip of a spare toothpic, drilled a 0.025" hole with a #72 drill bit and pin vise, into the toothpic and cut off a piece of the tip of the round head pin, and CA glued it into the end of the toothpic (tool at bottom of pic). |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Easy Built PD-05 Waco "N" | Parked | 01-Feb-17 22:02 |  | | Views : 1372 | | A famous quote saying, that I read about this plane, that really got to me and left me pondering ... goes as follows "AFTER THE LAST WACO GRACEFULLY FLIES, THE SKY WILL BECOME MERELY AIR." |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Easy Built PD-05 Waco "N" | Parked | 01-Feb-17 21:24 |  | | Views : 1394 | | The spinner came from a "plastic decorative end" of a "Curtain Rod Bracket Set" from Dollarama and weighs 5.0 grams. The side fuse decals were my own design and were made from different colors of Top Flite "Trim Sheets" (Peel 'n Stick). |
| LASTWOODSMAN | Easy Built PD-05 Waco "N" | Parked | 01-Feb-17 21:12 |  | | Views : 1493 | | The color scheme of my "PURPLE WACO", was Violet (upper wings, upper stabilser, and fin/rudder), Cream - a pale tint of Yellow (underside of wings, stab, and fuse), and Lilac - a pale tint of violet (fuselage). The nose cowl and spinner were sprayed gloss "grape". |
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