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Reply #15 - Oct 7^th, 2004 at 6:13am

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Gosh Dave you have been busy Shocked

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Reply #16 - Oct 7^th, 2004 at 10:16am

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Finished the Kigas primer pump today, and made some good progress on the gunsight.

Dave

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Reply #17 - Oct 7^th, 2004 at 11:20am

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Dave do you live in your workshop or something? Grin

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Reply #18 - Oct 7^th, 2004 at 11:24am

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Hi Ozzy,
most of the time yes, still at least my wife knows where i am Grin

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Reply #19 - Oct 7^th, 2004 at 12:13pm

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All I can say is:

1) Wow...

2) When are you going to build the rest of the aeroplane...

3) Can I have one (er, when I've paid off the student loan, er, finally settled in one house, and had a pay rise)???

Charlie

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Reply #20 - Oct 7^th, 2004 at 12:22pm

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I used to overhaul Kigas pumps. Yours looks better than the original ever did. I wouldn't be surprised if it works. Shocked

I was serious about aircraft restoration work. Your project doesn't look much different to what these guys are doing. http://www.russellw.com/planes/ryan/cowling.htm

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Reply #21 - Oct 7^th, 2004 at 12:22pm

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Hi Charlie,
the most expensive items for the project were the gauges, the sheet aluminium is £28 UK per 8' X 4' sheet.
But the largest investment is time. I have just over 400 hours on the project so far, and probably the same again on research .

Dave

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Reply #22 - Oct 7^th, 2004 at 12:35pm

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Hagar,
thanks for the kind words, but i am not in the same league as the guys in the link. The sheet metalwork i had to pick up as i went along. I'm re making the pilots seat from sheet ali, and now have to learn how to do wired edges.

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Reply #23 - Oct 8^th, 2004 at 6:07am

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But the largest investment is time. I have just over 400 hours on the project so far, and probably the same again on research .

I can imagine...

Anyway, keep up the good work, I llok forward to seeing the finished cockpit.

Cheers

Charlie

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Reply #24 - Oct 9^th, 2004 at 5:19pm

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Another part to cross off the build list, the early type gunsight.
I have afew problems with the reflected image as can be seen Roll Eyes

, Oh well back to the drawing board.
Dave

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Reply #25 - Oct 10^th, 2004 at 2:38am

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amazing!
What about the little adjusty thingy.... Roll Eyes

Thats *drools*

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Reply #26 - Oct 29^th, 2004 at 6:50pm

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Some good news on the gunsight image problem, I managed to find some beamsplitter glass. The beamsplitter works great and only $20 including shipping to the UK from the USA Grin

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Other work completed on the project includes the B/P pilots screen frame and I've almost completed the new build pilots seat.

Dave

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Reply #27 - Oct 30^th, 2004 at 7:36am

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I can't wait to see the new pics Dave Wink

Mark

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Reply #28 - Nov 4^th, 2004 at 5:19pm

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Three words:

OH MY GOD !!!

Been at your site and it is an absolutely amazing piece of work!

Chapeau !!!

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Reply #29 - Nov 5^th, 2004 at 12:08am

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Dude, I'm doing metal work in dt and I'm worse at it than a dead monkey. You however seem to have the right DNA.
Do not waste your talent.
Make the whole plane.

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