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Posted: March/22/2020 at 3:46am  Quote
 
The cowl has been tarted up and now fitted. The engine is a bit more forward than it was as a result of changing to the Evolution 260. That should never have been done. The baffle ring no longer fits.



Night, All.

Isolate and sleep tight.

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Posted: March/22/2020 at 5:32am  Quote
 

What an amazing old airplane! As has been said thanks for sharing the sprucing up with us.

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Posted: March/22/2020 at 9:20pm  Quote
 
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Was tempted to get the ARF version of one of these but seemed to be a lot of chatter about CG, thrust lines all out etc and having sen one spin in at Tin Can Bay warbirds a few years back I thought better of it.

They are ugly as sin but very in your face, "ow's yer father" attitude that I like in a model.

All  can do is lurk for the moment, shed is now packed.  Not bad for two 2 days work on me own.  Yeah I'm a maniac! Probably why I am single as energy levels too high for most to put up with.

I'd love to be able to emulate your litho metal work skills. Shocked Clap

 
We had one of those ARF Lysanders in the Club. Phoenix Models? It was an awful looking thing. I hardly know where to start! But the most obvious was the length of the nose. Cricky ... like an elephants trunk .. it went on forever. Uggg.

"Ugly as sin" you say ! If I want to see ugly I consult my mirror and then go back and reconsider what I have just seen that I thought was ugly! Try it. 

Good work with the packing !

As for litho plate workings ... it is a job for the simple minded; it keeps us amused for hours. 

Ken

yeah all the time which reinforces why I am single, ugly as bat sh it!  At least me Mum loves me hahaha


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Peter,
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There's Martin , always looking for the silver lining! LOL

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Peter,
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Indeed, more money to put towards my shed.


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Today was spent inventing a servo operated choke. I have never had one always believing that a simple lever from the choke arm would be easiest and most reliable. It has been so for many a year but now with the refurb of the old girl I thought it time to give it a go.
Think time on this was a couple of hours with failed trials of this and that. Finally I managed to squeeze a servo in and link it to the (cut short) direct choke lever. The servo was positioned on the front left upper firewall. Looks untidy but it is solid and works well. The gear lever on the Tx is now my choke.


That's it, the little upside down Hitec 645 MG servo top centre pic.

Another item ready for change were the aileron and flap servo leads dangling down inside the fuse cabin across the huge scale fuel tank amidships. The jazzy colours of those leads did not quite sit right so to speak. Black, big bore heat shrink plastic tubing would be threaded over the pair of leads so that they were not as obvious. After shrinking the leads did look  a lot less obvious.


Sorry for quality of pic, but you get the idea.



The massive Lysander fuel tank. The pilot had to look over his shoulder to read the petrol guage !


To get the choke servo lead back to the Rx I had to take the dash away again. The black canister is the iconic Moki ignition system. It stores a wealth of info for the factory. Including top rpm run. It also has a rev limiter which cuts out the engine if she over revs..



90% of this is in the dark ... which is probably just as well.


A better shot of the passenger seat/ gunner's seat when machine gun fitted. It was never used in this SOE Lysander. The wire trailing carelessly across the top of the pic is one of the 3 sats leads. Everywhere the is a stringer there are full length pinked cloth tapes covering the cloth covering outside. They stop where the skin changes to metal fore and aft.


Aft metal skin on the right of the pic.


Multiple tapes along the side.


Cloth now covered at front end by metal skin in area of engine.

This "isolation" has its advantages ! 

So far so good, the Grim Reaper has not a calling come as yet. 

Later, Lurkers.

Ken









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What an amazing old airplane! As has been said thanks for sharing the sprucing up with us.

Doc


You are more than welcome, Doc.

Ken


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102" Meister P-47 Moki 150
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