Your latest creation

[rocket]

Chuck Bridge artistry. Gonna race it like I stole it in Cincinnati.

[rs-ssfan]

Well if you can't make it to any races, you might as well do some painting.

[rs-ssfan]

Even got one for myself done.

[KRProton]

Each and every one of those so beautiful Lonnie.

Are those BC Ashleys? Well, now that I look again they're not all the same plane.

Tim

[rs-ssfan]

Thanks Tim..

First one is an older BC Ashley, before DT took over the building. Next one is an old Harrold Sattler Loki. The one for me is a Two Sweet.

[smsazzy]

My first Q500 built myself. A Quik-V7. (Actually a Viper Wing for the pic, still waiting on cores. But Fuse is ready to go!)

[vonderhey]

NO MORE HEMOS!

This fuel line pinch is built into the fuselage using 3/32” five ply on the inside with two layers of 1.2 oz. cloth and epoxy resin to make sure it doesn’t come loose.
Step 1- Cut the hole and slot in the fuse where you want it first.
Step 2- Glue a piece of plywood inside the fuse. Mark the plywood so it can be easily centered in the hole and slot area. This is why the hole and slot should be cut into the fuse first.
Step 3- Apply two layers of light glass cloth over the plywood to secure it to the fuse. It helps to bevel the outer edges of the plywood so the glass cloth has a nice transition from the plywood to the fuse.
Step 4- After everything is well cured Dremel the plywood to match the hole and slot that was cut into the fuse in step 1.
Notes: The width of the slot is critical so initially start with the hole and slot undersized and work up to the dimensions that will do the job.
Also and obviously no sharp edges when finished. This is why the plywood is required. Just cutting the hole and slot in a glass fuse would result in cutting the fuel line after a couple of uses.
Von Der Hey

[ceandra]

Thank you, Lee! Nice job!

Chuck
11H

[rocket]

Who's needle valve?

[vonderhey]

JETT

[DHULEN]

Very cool Lee

[rocket]

That needle valve is nicer than my whole plane. I was looking at my needle valve today and said dammmm lee has one nice needle valve.

[Dave Yost]

Nicely Done Lee......Smart.

Cheers, Dave

[VooDoo]

My new Hawk Q40, I've only had a few flights with it, but I'm really happy with the way it's handling at this point.

[KRProton]

Here's the EF1 Shark I finished for Jason Duda delivered at the Nat's. The plane was provided with the wood parts mostly framed up, but required lots of work to complete including reworking the landing gear, finishing the cockpit/canopy frame, final sanding/shaping, etc. Then of course, paint and MonoKote. Graphics were drawn in my CAD program and cut from MonoKote on my vinyl cutter. Most of the paint is PPG Shopline, but the purple on the plastic parts was some other-brand polyurethene Mike Helsel loaned me and the fluorescent orange is Krylon sprayed through a straw into a jar for airbrushing. The clear is unbuffed PPG also.

A big problem occurred when I returned from a week-long trip after all the paint was done; I had used rattle can primer over the cowl and wheel pants because they were the only parts that needed primer, but there must have been some sort of reaction because when I got back from this trip, the white on the cowl and pants had yellowed requiring starting the paint job on those all over again.

Unfortunately, the plane was lost in about the 3rd round at the Nat's because of a mid-air.

Tim Lampe