Eagler's Nest
General Category => Off Topics and General Interest => Topic started by: weasel on November 29, 2013, 05:43:38 AM
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Back years ago my brothers and myself helped Dad build a Protech Prostar PT2. The first iteration had a Subaru 2200 with a belt reduction and Airflow Performance fuel injection. Engine was no good. Had problems, quit in the air several times. Took the engine off and junked it. The plane sat several years neglected so about a year ago we started the restoration. Slappy took all the covering off and rebuilt the fuselage where repairs were needed and built a motor mount for the newly acquired O-290.
We are just starting the covering process. Work happens every Thursday evening.
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good we'll be wanting reports. how does that thing fly? ive read reports that it wasnt the best handler but that was on the net so auto suspect...
are yall using 2.7 or 1.6 oz fabric on it? back in the 80s i covered an acrosport with the then Stits HS90X fabric that was a very light I think 1.6 oz fabric with the same rating as 2.7. It worked really nice unlike the relatively stiff and thick 2.7. and of course the big weight diff. It's been discontinued far as I can tell. Does anybody know of a similar polyester fabric available now?
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It kinna flies like a truck. Gotta stay on the rudder. Lots of adverse yaw. Supposed to be a short field performer but was heavy with the Subie. Hope we lighten it up a little. Yeh we puttin the heavy fabric on it. Wish we had something lighter.
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Thursday night here again. Covered the left stablizer on protech. You can see some LE tail surfaces coming together on the other end of the table.
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Weasel:
Good photo's - keep the Thursday nite feature shots coming... The Protech structure looks robust - is it a little heavy?... Today we have 4 season's all at once in San Diego - tonite it is -1 up in Cedar City, Utah - any time I've ever been there it has been over 90 on the way to Oshkosh...
Steve
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hey weasel, you better tell that guy to stop eating cheeseitz with MEK all over his hands... :-X
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Work is under way soon as I get through with these ramon nudlz.
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Well this about it for this week.
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8) I have a meeting on Thursday s we moved the work night up to today.
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Weasel that dog in your avatar is having a good day
is that a DE on its back? it looks like its gonna be heavy. You know how important weight is Weasel you ought not let those boys over there build heavy Eagles.
once its built so it will stay together weight is everything else
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Naw. That's the ProTech we workin on every week.
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:) We back at it on Thursday night. Christmas holiday season slowed us down last week.
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Put some cover on the other side.
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Weasel
whats that long console looking thing in that plane? is that just for looks or what? you oughta get that outa there thats a buncha weight for ?
you using polyfiber? thats what I'm gonna use. with 2 xcoats of silver on top and one on bottom and a thin coat of silver or gray polytone on top to finish it off. no paint on any of the sheet metal. rib stitched with tapes.
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:) The console supports some control belcranks and flap controls. They are very complex. Has dropped alerons when flaps are down. Also has fuel system and wiring. Made from alum and is really light.
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Forgot to add. We covering with stits poly process. Not sure what the final coat will be yet. will prolly match the color and paint of the wings so that we dont have to repaint them
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Man it gets cold in the hangar. Got home and in the shower ran $50 of hot water down the drain till my toes got stablized
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its been cold in mine. no heat. worked all one day and the high in there got up to 38. its normally about 45-50. mostly wear gloves. slow go.
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Heading north today I passed POLAR BEAR heading your way Professor.
I guess this -10 Degrees wind chill is just too much for em.
The worse part is when it turns 55 and Rainy. All my equipment sweats, and rusts. Not a Happy feeling.
HIGH NOON
SHANE
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Got most of the Poly Brush on the fuse.
Also Gabe got some tail pieces laying there for his LE
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Looks like ya'll are making good progress on your planes. How is the cold affecting the covering process? I am almost to the point of covering mine. I need to come up and watch ya'll and learn how it's done. Do ya'll just work on Thursday nights?
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We got one a them jet engine lookin things torchin hot air at us adding to the poly fiber fumes and creating a comfortable environment to work in.....probably sorta dangerous too with all them fumes and open flame. DONT TRY THIS AT HOME
So far we have been doing it only on Thur. night but talking around about changing the date. I will try to keep ya up on it.
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Thanks Weasle.
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Was cold yesterday man. flew the biplane for about 1 hr giving rides. the hi was 32. Lured Sheila into takin a ride plane did great. She did too but was not impressed with the temperature
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We got one a them jet engine lookin things torchin hot air at us adding to the poly fiber fumes and creating a comfortable environment to work in.....probably sorta dangerous too with all them fumes and open flame.
I had a wood fire stove burning in my garage almost the entire spraying process....... Never once got a hollywood explosion. Just lotsa YELLOW overspray on everything.
High Noon
SHANE
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Sorry about not keepin yall up on this thing. Had a lot going here but still trying to get together once a week to work.
Here is some of the backlog pics and up to date as off this Saturday.
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Sorry about not keepin yall up on this thing. Had a lot going here but still trying to get together once a week to work.
Here is some of the backlog pics and up to date as off this Saturday.
Planes look so neat with the freshly shrunk fabric... Nice lines to your build... Steve
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It's looking good Weasel. I see another Legal Eagle comeing together also in the background. :) How about sharing some pictures of it as well. Thanks Randy Q.
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It's looking good Weasel. I see another Legal Eagle comeing together also in the background. :) How about sharing some pictures of it as well. Thanks Randy Q.
Hey poorman2,
Here (http://www.eaglersnest.com/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=45)is the guy that is putting it together. Maybe we can get him to post some pics????? :D Come on Gabe put some pics up for us
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I haven't been taking very many pics man. I haven't been making a lot of progress either:'( ... maybe there's a correlation between the two?
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I now have the tail sections up to primer, and I'm back to working on the last wing. Putting in the fuel tank, leading edge and attachment hardware.
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Instead of working, I've been out watching these guys goofing around...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G158QSOig4&feature=youtu.be (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G158QSOig4&feature=youtu.be)
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Thanks Gabe for sharing. Its fun watching other people fly there planes, but I figure it will be a lot more fun to be flying my own. The Starduster is one of my alltime favorites. Keep up the great work.
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I'm itching to get it done and do some flying of my own.
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Oh man!!! forgot to upload these ???
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Looking good Weasel !!! I thought that all this rain had washed ya'll away, since we had not herd from you latley. Is that your daughter enjoying the corn? Did ya'll go to the air show at Columbus Airforce Base this past weekend? The Thunderbirds put on an awsome show. My wife and I, my oldest daughter , her husband and two girls went. They had the Disabled Veteran B-25 bomber, a P-38, a P-51, a F4U Corsair and four T-6's flying as well as some airobatic planes. The P-38 was one of only seven still flying. I lost my dad this past November to cancer. He was 86. He had built radio controlled models of all these planes. The P-38 was his last. So when I walked up and saw them on the tarmac, it brought a tear to my eye. He would have loved to have seen them.
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Looking good Weasel !!! I thought that all this rain had washed ya'll away, since we had not herd from you latley. Is that your daughter enjoying the corn? Did ya'll go to the air show at Columbus Airforce Base this past weekend? The Thunderbirds put on an awsome show. My wife and I, my oldest daughter , her husband and two girls went. They had the Disabled Veteran B-25 bomber, a P-38, a P-51, a F4U Corsair and four T-6's flying as well as some airobatic planes. The P-38 was one of only seven still flying. I lost my dad this past November to cancer. He was 86. He had built radio controlled models of all these planes. The P-38 was his last. So when I walked up and saw them on the tarmac, it brought a tear to my eye. He would have loved to have seen them.
Water bout t get us man. so wet and muddy here looks like south Louisiana like a marsh. No I did not go. Was in Los Angeles, CA. first time i ever went out there.......sure nuff not quite like we are round here-- They think different out there may be the sun or something i dont know but its good to be back.
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There's no place like home!!! We got hammered by about 5 1/2 inches of rain. My supervisor's home got hit by lightning and burned to the ground. He and his wife were lucky to get out. When I was a teenager I wanted to go to LA. Not so much now. I like my small town. I got to get out and cut my grass some time today. There predicting more rain Sunday night.