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The Bob Wade Legacy Harbor Freight Cub
I wrote a somewhat lengthy Facebook post about this project and realized that I needed to drop it here, too. Finished up a “distraction project” from the Bob Wade legacy this afternoon. Apparently, Bob Wade had a go at converting … Continue reading
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Re-motoring the Ascent
My Ascent has been kind of a weird experience. For those who don’t know/remember, the Ascent was a Tower/somebody ARF with a built-up wing, holes in the wood sheet tail, fiberglass fuselage and probably tail boom (it’s painted and I’m … Continue reading
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Final Report – Flight of the S’Timmer
Well, the Skimmer rebuild saga is now officially over: The S’Timmer (T-tail Skimmer) had a wonderful and uneventful first flight this past Tuesday at the Lafayette Cloud Jockeys field Roll Call Tuesday gathering. The down thrust built into the nose … Continue reading
Finishing Out the Skimmer (S’Timmer?)
Well, one last thing to do and done. The covering is complete. The receiver is bound. The servos set up. The motor spins in the correct direction. The hatch screw is replaced and secured. The battery floor is reattached. All … Continue reading
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Sweeping Up and Skimmer 400 Progress
As a follow on to my visit with the Lafayette Cloud Jockeys and a pending September trip to Iowa to attend the Sig Fly-In, I am attempting to get some things in order so that I have some planes to … Continue reading
Posted in Projects, S'Timmer
Tagged Bell Motor, Linkage, Motor Mounting, Old Model Refresh, Repair, Skimmer, Speed 400
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The Push-E Cat V5 Thread from RCGroups
The purpose of this post is to copy over the previous posts from RCGroups that I have made on on the Push-E Cat V5 design effort to my own blog. This is part of my effort to add meaningful content … Continue reading
Posted in CNC, Projects, Prototypes, Push-E Cat V5, Tooling
Tagged Design, EPP, Hot Wire, Laser Cutter, Obsolescence, Phlatprinter, Push-E Cat, Router
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Yikes! Bit of a temporal offset here, but progress has been made…
Well, yeah. Sorry about that folks. Things at Che Garrison haven’t been as linear as I would have liked in the grand scheme of things. Believe it or not, however, I have actually made progress – to the point that … Continue reading
Posted in CNC, News, Prototypes, Push-E Cat V5, Tooling
Tagged Flat Cat, Positron, Push-E
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What I’ve been up to since the last post…
So, as you can see from the picture above, my Phlatprinter /// arrived from Phlatboyz right before Christmas, 2010. This fact alone pretty much explains the delay in my updates to the blog and the lack of progress with the … Continue reading
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Note to self:
Install trailing edge CF reinforcements prior to laying on kraft paper composite – and skip the whole “clear Minwax polyurethane” thing. Yes, Virginia, I managed to re-create the whole V2 “scimitar wing” fiasco. Shrinkage is a b***h.
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Placing domestic water fowl in linear formations
It’s driving me buggy, but I’m getting it done. Slowly but surely I’m amassing the information I need to be able to lead a customer through the process of building an aileron Push-E Cat. If it was just me slapping … Continue reading
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