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  1. TonyHallo

    Scale RCM 1/3 Scale Champ Build

    I put three coats of the EkoPrime on sanding with 320 dry in between coats, hopefully tomorrow it will become yellow. Painting sucks! Still made a few mistakes working with the water borne paints but I'm learning! Have a scale fun fly on Saturday at a club I recently joined, taking both One...
  2. TonyHallo

    The 'What did you do in your workshop tonight?' thread

    I think she has a point!
  3. TonyHallo

    The 'What did you do in your workshop tonight?' thread

    STBU - Had to Google it. Learned something new today. Weren't you just complaining about chilly a May and April somewhere else here?
  4. TonyHallo

    Scale RCM 1/3 Scale Champ Build

    I put the second coat on today after the grandsons went home, school's out so back to keeping them busy for a summer. Tomorrow I'll sand and decide if a third coat necessary or to go the Eko Prime. With the EkoFill the surface is still heat formable, once the EkoPrime goes on no more heat...
  5. TonyHallo

    Scale Nelitz 1/3 scale Cub build

    Looks great
  6. TonyHallo

    Scale RCM 1/3 Scale Champ Build

    Well the stack implosion cause a power outage in the town so was without power until the afternoon. There are many videos of the implosion online, check it out. The old 752" stack hit about 50' from the road and the force took out 4 utility poles. Put the first coat of EkoFill on today after...
  7. TonyHallo

    Mini lathe (and mill) discussion.

    I need to make one as well but I only have a few 13/16" round dies. I have SAE and metric Craftsman tap and die sets that have hex shaped dies. I use the hex holder and a live center to get the die started straight, then brace the handle against the tool post, it takes some effort to cut 1/2"...
  8. TonyHallo

    Scale RCM 1/3 Scale Champ Build

    Don't expect to do much tomorrow. They are imploding the 752' high stack at the power plant where I worked from 1977 through 1980 in my town, suspect there will be party. The plant called Cheswick Power Station was built in 1970, 600 MW single unit coal burner, scrubber and SCR was added but...
  9. TonyHallo

    Scale RCM 1/3 Scale Champ Build

    I set up the 'Dexter Morgan" kill room in the back of my garage today and located most of the fixtures for holding the fuselage and the tail plane parts as shown in the photo below. Most of the fixtures were in the shed attic, I really could not remember how I held the rudder, referencing this...
  10. TonyHallo

    Scale RCM 1/3 Scale Champ Build

    I put the 7AC yellow to the cowl and landing gear struts today. When I originally painted these parts I used the same paint that was used on the fabric, Steward System EkoPoly. Since EkoPoly is designed for fabric, it does get fully hard so the paint buckled up a round the screw heads on the...
  11. TonyHallo

    Scale Nelitz 1/3 scale Cub build

    He'll get it running for sure.
  12. TonyHallo

    Scale Wendell Hostetler 30% Piper Cherokee Glass Fuselage Build.

    One area that I didn't care for on the original 30% Cherokee was the fit between the cowl and the fuselage, after it was done and painted the edge of the cowl stuck out a little as seen in the photo. I'm taking some time to fit the cowl to the fuselage and plan to have a step so that the...
  13. TonyHallo

    Mini lathe (and mill) discussion.

    It's a good time to have a look inside a 3W CS engine and see what changes are made. All the bypass ports are polished to a near knife edge, there is some polishing in the exhaust port and I was surprised to find a hemispherical combustion the camber. The pistons have a slight crown
  14. TonyHallo

    Mini lathe (and mill) discussion.

    It looks bad but it is a great running engine. The mufflers were both skim cut to remove the exhaust port impression, the left muffler was fixtured in a piece of 1" x 2" x6" steel bar that serves as my 1/4" music wire bender. The spot faces were cleaned up and steel inserts were made that fit...
  15. TonyHallo

    Mini lathe (and mill) discussion.

    Tomorrow I need to get the muffler cleaned up and fitted with inserts. I plan to skim cut the mounting face as well.
  16. TonyHallo

    Mini lathe (and mill) discussion.

    A friend bought an Aeroworks 100cc Extra with a 3W 150CS mounted on it, it's quite ballistic. When he got it home he discover the engine back plate had been welded, buyer beware. He had the plane out 4 or 5 times last year and every time the left muffler would come loose. He also found that...
  17. TonyHallo

    What beer ya drinking tonight?

    Why stop at 6?
  18. TonyHallo

    Inside the Roto 85FS

    The new head gaskets are somewhat convoluted as seen in the photo on the right and get compressed flat when the head bolts are torqued to 42 inch pounds. I had to borrow the old trusty Snap On dial torque wrench from my brother's auto repair. I'm pretty sure my dad purchase the wrench in the...
  19. TonyHallo

    Inside the Roto 85FS

    As stated there is about an hour on the engine. I was surprised at the carbon deposits on the cylinder head, the cylinder bore looked great however. Once the head is removed the pushrod sleeves can be removed. The sleeves are sealed with "O"rings on each end. I using Red Line racing oil...
  20. TonyHallo

    Inside the Roto 85FS

    In order to remove the cylinder head 8 mm nuts, I had the turn down a socket to fit into the head, a twelve point socket may have worked but I don't own one.
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