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[QUOTE=Keyrigger;1836794]I now have a coat of primer over the rivets and true to form, I found a few missing, sigh. More to be done later. I have a brand new Pro Heli instrument panel on order but as things will go, it will not be here until sometime in September. I want to have this ready to go to Dalton, GA and to HSM in Davis, CA if the gods are kind but without an instrument panel in there, it looks really and truly barren. I have been trying out PVC foam board and it has become my favourite building material of late, so I made up some EPO patterns and with some 1.2" wide PVC, made the lower base in no time, flat. The panel took a lot longer as I futz with it for a long time to get the shape, only to have made it a bit small, lol. Oh well, I think I will use the lower base and the new upper panel when it arrives as there is no difference in the two units aside from how they have been made. CA instantly bonds PVC just like it does your fingers, so this stuff went together in lightning fast time. The nice thing about the bond is that it sands without the normal hard line you get when you use CA on balsa. This will be simply painted black and will be just the ticket in the nose. I will think about making a partial floor and add some small details like the pedals to it. At least there will be something aside from that huge battery to look at. Take care.

Don[/QUOTE]

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10-21-2015 11:44 AM
Keyrigger	Re: Fun-Key Jet Ranger Reloaded Thanks guys. Don
10-20-2015 02:34 PM
Phil Noel	Re: Fun-Key Jet Ranger Reloaded Sorry to hear of your two mishaps! The end of two works of art!!
10-19-2015 10:53 AM
RomeoOscar	Re: Fun-Key Jet Ranger Reloaded Sorry about the mishap but nice work!
10-19-2015 09:03 AM
Keyrigger	Re: Fun-Key Jet Ranger Reloaded I had some bad news about my TOW Defender but I also have bad news about this one. I do bear some responsibility for the outcome as I didn't have a spotter. At the same warbird event as I lost the Defender, a P-47 doing a high speed pass ran right up my tail making no attempt to avoid collision. I took evasive action which then put me in the path of another overtaking F-16. I had already established my flight path and the other overtaking aircraft should have move up or down, out of my airspace. Their spotters didn't bother to mention that to them because as usual, none of them informed their pilots of my spot in the air. Like most spotters, they were too busy complimenting their pilot on his skills in the air and not paying attention to what was going on. Even if I had a spotter (one of the couple of times I didn't have one there), there would have been now way to avoid the P-47. Please, if you are a spotter, pay attention to the other aircraft in the air and only glance at your pilot's aircraft to see where he is according to where the rest are. I will be starting a new CH-139 as soon as I can as there is a Little Bird that is out in front of it. Take care. Don
08-15-2015 07:29 PM
Keyrigger	Re: Fun-Key Jet Ranger Reloaded Yes. The PCV board I used for most of the build of the instrument panel and components, fuses great with CA. If I am gluing styrene to styrene, I use Tenax-7R as it fuses the parts instantly but it takes CA to bond the PVC board to styrene. I also use Shoe Goo to bond the instrument faces to the pieces of PVC board. That board is used by sign makers, everywhere, and can be laminated together, carved, sanded, sealed with a single coat of primer, and give you fantastic results in a very short time.. Thanks and take care. Don
08-15-2015 09:26 AM
bensidus197217	Re: Fun-Key Jet Ranger Reloaded Great work Don! I gather you use CA glue for much of your assemblies would this be true?
08-14-2015 08:04 PM
Keyrigger	Re: Fun-Key Jet Ranger Reloaded Thanks Phil. Don
08-14-2015 05:26 PM
Phil Noel	Re: Fun-Key Jet Ranger Reloaded Impressive indeed - another masterpiece.
08-14-2015 11:51 AM
Keyrigger	Re: Fun-Key Jet Ranger Reloaded Here are some pictures of the rebuilding of the instrument panel. When I got back from Portage La Prairie, I had a lot of little external details to change and the big one was the panel. There were too many changes to the shape to refit the one I quickly made up so I took the base as the main block and built up from there. The pedals and floor were fine and didn't need some much as a tiny change. I'll take some pictures of some of the changes to the exterior and of the rebuilding of the WSPS cutter on the underside of the nose. It was lost to the ground in an unintentional autorotation landing on my first contest flight with the helicopter. Sigh. Take care. Don
08-06-2015 09:24 PM
Keyrigger	Re: Fun-Key Jet Ranger Reloaded Thanks guys. It was a good time getting here and the time taken to get the pictures was well worth the trip to Portage La Prairie. I will be watching the judging process at IRCHA and taking time to do that next year. Take care. Don
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