Member postings for McG 6969

Hello again,

Glad to be able to confirm that the ‘dowel center pins’ were - nearly - worth the investment.

Piece of cake to get a correct ‘inprint’ with the wing sitting perfectly on both F14 ply guides, a bit of drilling and later on installing/gluing both dowels.

With my attention drawn to that area, I started wondering about a way to keep the cells pack at the front of the battery box. They're not supposed to travel around, are they?

After a bit of online checking, the different build blogs didn’t propose a ready-to-go solution. Everybody seems to keep it as a ‘Classified’ secret…

Not having Sidewinders to build as a ‘mojo therapy’, I decided to have a small door keeping a foam block pressed against the battery cells at the front.

Two carbon mini rods and a small latch is all it needed. The junk lite ply - from a French Pyrenean Goat cheese tray - has been covered with some off-cuts of glass cloth, hence the slightly darker colour.

Hakuna matata & stay careful all

Chris

BRU - BE / CTR French Cheese Control

... +1 on trying to create your own balsa farm.

You could give it another attempt, but just remove the covering first...

Cheers & stay 'covered'

Chris

Thanks for commenting, gents.

As you wrote, Dirk. Visitors should try to understand that their comment, now and then, can give that boost we need when we feel getting into a 'dip'...

Fine that you could repair your warped nose, David. Do you mean that building some Sidewinders is a therapeutic solution against some loss of mojo??? ...

Iris is quite busy at the moment but she's fine, John. Regarding Gaston, he's still in Costa Rica. The 'little fella' is considering a career switch with the plan to start a plantation of 'Ochroma pyramidale' aka balsa tree... Not really a daft idea though...

Cheers & stay cool all

Chris

Hi David,

Don't tell me about redesigning a nose for a model...

Glad for you that you managed to have your warped one fixed.

Keep going & stay safe, young man

Chris

Hi to all still out there,

I guess I’m getting into those small bits that take an eternity to measure, cut and assemble without very much to show here.

Of course, my previous glassing part of sub-assemblies is very repetitive and far from ‘spectacular’…

But - exception made for our Chief who is in his finalizing stage and the (lucky) builders who finalized their model already - where are the entertaining blogs of all the others?

With 70+ short kits dispatched for a more than ‘certain while’ now, I’m just feeling a bit disappointed, in regard to the idea of a ‘mass build’.

Now, this could be the C-19 just creeping in on my side of things…

Hakuna matata & stay cool all

Chris

BRU - BE / CTR Build Blog Control

Glad to have you back at your Fury, Colin.

... and still following, young man.

Cheers & keep safe

Chris

Hi again,

Last weekend has been dedicated to Iris as her terrace was in need of some attention and wood protection for the coming winter months.

Among other things, I also looked for some modelling aids while in the DIY supermarket.

I earlier realized that I made a serious ‘hick-up’ when fully planking up my bottom fuselage. Access to the wing dowel holes seems seriously compromised now. Either a drastic surgery or finding another solution with ‘dowel center pins’. At least, if that word exists…

I had some 8mm handy but in this case, I was looking for the 6mm ones.

Visiting Gamma, Wickes and Brico, finally I could find some 6mm ones from Stanley. Rather expensive at €3,75 for 4 of them, but at least I was supporting the British economy… until, at home, the packaging showed "made in … China". Nice try, at least…

Perfect fit and it looks very promising so far.

Thanks again for your help, Martin. I guess I'll have a better sleep from now on.

Hakuna matata & stay safe

Chris

BRU - BE / CTR Support UK Control

... really envious of your paint jig, Phil.

Shame you had to hide your pink Sauce though...

Did you use your airbrush or rattle cans for your primer?

Cheers

Chris

Alan,

It's really not about being 'relaxed about this news' or not.

The point simply is 'YOU CAN'T HAVE AN INFLUENCE' on this matter.

So, no point of having 'sad' or 'worried' feelings/concerns about it right now.

SLEC, the boss, their staff and Tina know a lot better what are their possible actions than you even after 40 years of buying wood and building toy models... please... wait for their actions/decisions to be communicated...

Cheers

Chris

... another 'toilet rolls hoarding' syndrome here??? ...

Just be patient and wait for the market to stabilize.

... and if balsa wood gets 150% more expensive, so it be.

You're not supposed to take your assets with you when you're crossing The River, are you?

Cheers, but stay safe all

Chris

... just amazing, Phil.

Your jigs are just as 'immaculate' as the other parts of your Sabre.

I might have to copy this one as well then...

Cheers & stay alert, Chief

Chris

Thanks again for posting, Martin.

All the balsa I used for the Dog was a 'perfect copy' of your 'Packing List' (a SLEC order).

The 48" sheets, the grade of wood, the ailerons stock... all of it.

I use glue (Deluxe Aliphatic) as sparingly as you do with the wood. Cfr the small short haired stiff brush and water glass present on a lot of my built pics.

So, we'll just have to see what the final results become...

Cheers & stay safe

Chris

Thanks a lot for the info, Martin.

I'm afraid I will never be able to keep my wing down to 550gr as I still have to build the belly pan, a few layers of Sauce, two servos + rods and the final paint job...

But if I can stay somewhere between your two weights, I'll be a happy bunny.

It's indeed amazing that you managed to gain 100gr just with your balsa selection.

Cheers & stay alert, young man

Chris

Hi there,

Still busy preparing the bits to join the wing to the fuselage.

I still needed some ‘pointed’ screws to mark the position of the wing retaining holes and both ply parts to bring on top & bottom of the wing.

I also sanded the glass cloth down of both wing sides to help with the adhesion of the Sauce later on.

I thought it was the right moment to weight the glassed wing.

Including the ailerons, the total weight so far is just under 444gr.

Unfortunately, there aren’t lots of figures available to compare with, except Phil’s but he has some drop tanks mechanics built in. I just hope I’m still in the acceptable figures.

On a side note, this was the 300^th picture of the Sabre Dog thread…

Hakuna matata & stay careful all

Chris

BRU - BE / CTR Weight Control

... you did it again, Simon...

Simply superb, Congrats...

Cheers

Chris

Hello again,

This ‘Indian Summer’ is really great here in BE at the moment. Just hope it is the same in the UK?

Not that much to write as the top wing glassing is done.

It just needed some general clean-up which is also finalized now…

Next will be ‘connecting’ the wing to the fuse. Not really looking forward to that though…

Hakuna matata & stay safe

Chris

BRU - BE / CTR Connecting Control

I guess it's a great idea as well, Matty.

In my personal case, being a apprentice, I don't have any previously flown models, unfortunately...

On the other hand, I was given an - old/crashed Graupner - e-glider from the nineties. It seems to be a challenge with just the missing parts.

Does that count?

Cheers & keep safe

Chris

Thanks for your visit and your comments, Phil.

I'm not that "fast catching" at all, if you remember I still have the wing attachment and the wing seat to resolve...

I did the same as you having a glassing start with the smaller bits trying to build up some confidence with them.

Regarding the Sauce, IMHO, it's better to keep a final thin layer of it instead of sanding it back to the wave of the glass. As your weighting process showed, it's a very negligible addition to the total weight of the parts.

Your decision to add some extra layer(s) of Sauce is the right one as layers of primer or high build primer are definitely a lot heavier.

Cheers & keep alert, young man

Chris

Hi out there,

As promised, here are a few pics after the glassing and cleaning of the wing bottom.

As I had to add some resin to the pigmented initial batch, I decided this time to skip adding some pigment to obtain a more translucent mixture.

Not that bad at all as a test - of course it shows the not pigmented layers in the centre section - but it still helps to obtain the opportunity to see when the glass tissue is sufficiently saturated…

Above is the glassing result of the radome nose.

With some magnets in its base, a small jar with a steel lid was all I needed to keep it in place during glassing/cleaning. Easy job really...

Hakuna matata & stay prudent

Chris

BRU - BE / CTR Mixture Control